The Oracle and BEA middleware

Posted by BeepStar in Information Technology on 07 4th, 2008 | one response

Is Oracle the new middleware champion? Have you been following the Oracle and BEA saga, lately?

It seems many concerned customers are still unsure about what the recent acquisition of BEA by Oracle means to them but until the air is cleared out regarding this major transaction, perhaps a good way to make sense of it all is to take a look at the merged middleware offerings.

For good measure, we’ll also take a peak at service-oriented architecture and developer tools but the bulk of the offerings remain confortably nested in middleware so here’s a look at what you can expect.

Middleware

Application server
- Oracle JRockit - The industry’s highest performing Java Virtual Machine now built into Oracle Fusion Middleware;
- Oracle JRockit Real Time - Deterministic-GC and Latency Analysis Tools help monitor and tune applications;
- Oracle JRockit Mission Control - Tools to monitor, manage, profile and eliminate memory leaks in Java application;
- Oracle WebLogic Server - Fully-featured, standards-based application server delivering compliance with open standards, multi-tiered architecture and support for component-based development;
- Oracle WebLogic Application Grid - An extreme scale-out grid platform.
Identity Management
- Oracle Entitlements Server - Externalizes and centralizes administration of enterprise entitlements, simplifies authorization policies and enforces security decisions;
Transaction Processing
- Oracle Tuxedo - Platform for building large-scale distributed enterprise applications that enable businesses to reduce development and deployment, while preserving existing assets;
User Interaction
- Oracle WebCenter - Open, comprehensive and standards-compliant user interaction product suite providing web integration and interface services for deploying a broad range of solutions;
- Oracle WebCenter Interaction - Formerly called BEA AquaLogic User Interaction, it’s an integrated, comprehensive collection of components used to create enterprise portals, collaborative communities as well as composite and social applications;
- Oracle WebCenter Services - Integrated set of products designed for creating dynamic user work environments that take advantage of SOA while enabling business users to bring complete context to their daily work tasks;
- Oracle WebLogic Portal - Formerly BEA WebLogic Portal, it’s a portal framework for creating highly interactive composite applications in a SOA environment with an integrated set of design-time tools for Java developers.

Service-Oriented Architecture

Oracle SOA Suite - Suite of products that help build, deploy and manage deployments ranging from department-level to enterprise-wide systems.
Oracle Service Bus - Accelerates configuration and deployment while simplifying management of shared services across the SOA.
Oracle BPM - Modeling, implementation, execution and monitoring of end-to-end business processes.

Developer Tools

Oracle Workshop - Extends Eclipse and Web Tools Platform with tools for Java, Java EE, Object Relational Mapping, Spring and Web Applications.

Quite a line of products, to say the least!

As you can see, Oracle has been busy integrating the BEA products to provide a unified line. It will take some time to getting use to but over time, customers using these technologies will benefit from enhanced data management technologies.

To make sense of this extensive line of products, Oracle provides documentation, sample code, technical whitepapers, demos and viewlets, internet seminars as well as discussion forums directly relating to Oracle products, on its own web site so you can also review them, if necessary.

This world-class combination of data management products is a fine choice for the Fortune 500 but it could also help you mid-sized or smaller company, just the same.

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