Thank you for visiting the Reviewer's Guide for Oracle Application Server 10g Standard Edition One. This product launches Oracle into the small business space with a focus for departments in large organizations as well.  It is the first release in the product roadmap for Oracle's Fusion Middleware.

Oracle Application Server 10g Standard Edition One

Summary

Oracle Application Server 10g Standard Edition One provides the same award-winning, mission-critical features as Oracle Application Server 10g Standard and Enterprise Editions and is tailored to enable small businesses and departments to quickly roll out prebuilt solutions that are simple to maintain. It allows ISVs and developers to leverage a complete and integrated Web infrastructure—traditionally available exclusively to large enterprises—at a very attractive price. And it is a key part of the Oracle Fusion Middleware.

Features

• Out-of-the-box portal solution for quick publishing and secure content sharing
• Complete and integrated Web site infrastructure to deploy and run Web sites and applications
• Easy, award-winning, productive development tools and application framework to speed Java/J2EE application delivery
• Single-click install and a simplified management console

Benefits

• Smaller organizations and departments in large organizations can share information quickly and easily while keeping it secure from attacks at all times.
• Minimal resources are required for management and deployment of these systems.
• ISVs and developers can build and deploy Web sites and applications quickly and economically with the aggressive packaging and pricing.
• Upgrading to Oracle Application Server 10g Standard Edition or Enterprise Edition is done with a simple license update.

Instant Information Sharing

Summary

Oracle Instant Portal provides an out-of-the-box portal solution designed for companies and departments that require cost-effective, easy-to-build, easy-to-maintain content portals. To satisfy demands as the small businesses grow, the full enterprise portal functionality of OracleAS Portal is also included in Oracle Application Server 10g Standard Edition One.

Features

• Prebuilt information sharing portal
• Precreated, preconfigured pages and site navigation
• Brand new, intuitive user interface
• Revolutionary in-place editing from within a Web browser
• Simplified point-and-click user and security management

Benefits

• No initial development costs are incurred; users can be productive immediately.
• No investment in training is required; Oracle Instant Portal is extremely simple to learn and easy to use.
• Minimal technical resources are needed to manage pages, content, and users.
• Users can easily, quickly, and securely share information.

Complete Web Site

Summary

Oracle Application Server 10g Standard Edition One's complete and integrated Web infrastructure for running secure, scalable, and cost-effective Web sites and applications increases the visibility of smaller organizations and enables them to market their products and services to a global audience. Now smaller businesses can have a professional Web presence that used to be available only to the Fortune 100 companies.

Features

• Comprehensive, integrated Web site infrastructure
• The fastest and most scalable Web server available on the market today
• Preintegrated support for popular PHP (PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor), Perl, and Python scripting
• Award-winning development and editing tools

Benefits

• No time or resources are wasted on integrating open-source components initially or through their upgrade paths.
• Increased application performance improves total user experience.
• Improved Web presence delivers dynamic information while leveraging employees' existing skills and expertise.
• Integrated technology stack and all the tools are certified to work together.

Easy Development

Summary

Oracle JDeveloper 10g is an integrated and extensible development environment with end-to-end support for modeling, developing, debugging, testing, profiling, tuning, and deploying applications and Web services using the latest industry standards for Java, XML, and SQL.

Features

• Award-winning visual and declarative development tools
• Complete and integrated full life cycle support: modeling, developing, debugging, testing, profiling, tuning, and deploying
• Broad technology and industry standards support
• Accelerated J2EE development with Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF)
• Support for deploying applications to Oracle and non-Oracle database and application server platforms

Benefits

• Developers are instantly productive and don't waste time or effort trying to integrate tools from many different vendors.
• Single vendor lock-in is avoided as all the major standards and emerging standards are supported directly.
• Applications are delivered to customers faster with the productive application development framework.
• Customers save time and money by deploying the application directly to the technology infrastructure they have in place.

Simplified Management

Summary

Oracle Application Server 10g Standard Edition One was designed with small-to-midsize companies in mind where dedicated technical resources are scarce or unavailable. For this reason, simplified installation and management of the entire product is the focus of this release.

Features

• Single-click installation
• Single management console to control running servers and instantly view the status of any component
• Simplified backup and restore of any of the components

Benefits

• No dedicated technical resources are required to get started.
• Minimal technical resources are required for managing the running system.
• The safety and security of the running system is ensured with a single click.