1 Application Server Products

1.1 Oracle TopLink and Application Development Framework

Oracle TopLink and Application Development Framework can be separately licensed, independent of any Oracle WebLogic Server or Oracle Internet Application Server edition. Oracle TopLink, Application Development Framework, and Oracle MapViewer are also included in all of the Oracle Internet Application Server and WebLogic Server and Suite editions.

When you license Oracle TopLink and Application Development Framework separately, the license includes Oracle TopLink Mapping Workbench and Oracle MapViewer.

1.2 The Oracle WebLogic Server Product Family

Oracle WebLogic Server is available in three editions with different functional capabilities, each suitable for different kinds of applications and different development and deployment scenarios. Oracle also offers several application server options, packs, and other products that enhance the capabilities of Oracle WebLogic Server for specific purposes. This section describes the licensing editions of Oracle WebLogic Server.

Table 1-1 introduces the Oracle WebLogic Server licensing options.

1.3 The Oracle Internet Application Server Product Family

Oracle Internet Application Server is available in three editions with different functional capabilities, each suitable for different kinds of applications and different development and deployment scenarios. Oracle also offers several application server options, packs, and other products that enhance the capabilities of Oracle Internet Application Server for specific purposes. This section describes the licensing editions of Oracle Internet Application Server.

Table 1-4 introduces the Oracle Internet Application Server licensing options.

1.4 Oracle Coherence

Oracle Coherence is an in-memory data grid solution that enables you to scale applications by providing fast access to frequently used data.

This section contains the following subsections:

• Section 1.4.1, "Oracle Coherence Standard Edition"

• Section 1.4.2, "Oracle Coherence Enterprise Edition"

• Section 1.4.3, "Oracle Coherence Grid Edition"

• Section 1.4.4, "Oracle Coherence Real Time Client"

• Section 1.4.6, "Feature Availability"

1.4.6 Feature Availability

Table 1-9 lists the features available in each Oracle Coherence edition.

Table 1-9 Mapping Features to Editions

Category	Feature	Standard Edition	Enterprise Edition	Grid Edition
General	Distributed data caching (TCMP)
General	Full data services, including write-behind, transactions, analytics, and events
General	Heterogeneous client support
Connectivity	Data Clients included
Connectivity	TCMP cluster technology
Connectivity	Multicast-free operation (WKA)
Management and Monitoring	Management host
Management and Monitoring	Manageable via clustered JMX
Caching	Local cache, near cache, continuous query cache, real-time events
Caching	Fully replicated data management
Caching	Partitioned data management
Caching	Data source integration via read-through/ write-through caching
Integration	Hibernate and TopLink integration
Integration	HTTP session management for application servers
Analytics	Parallel InvocableMap and QueryMap
Transactions	Write-behind caching
Transactions	J2CA resource adapter
Transactions	TransactionMap support
Compute Grid	InvocationService
Compute Grid	WorkManager
Enterprise Data Grid	WAN support
Enterprise Data Grid	Real Time Client connectivity
Enterprise Data Grid	.NET support

1.5 WebLogic Application Grid

WebLogic Application Grid includes all of the following product editions:

• Oracle Coherence Grid Edition

  Oracle Coherence Grid Edition provides application data management, fault tolerant data caching, data management, write-behind, transactions, analytics and events. For license details, see Section 1.4, "Oracle Coherence".

• Oracle WebLogic Operations Control

  Oracle WebLogic Operations Control enables centralized governance and control, dynamic activation, and service level management of Coherence.

• Oracle JRockit Real Time

  Oracle JRockit Real Time provides high performance, low latency JDK with deterministic garbage collection for Java applications running on Coherence Grid Edition.

• Enterprise Manager Diagnostics Pack

  Enterprise Manager Diagnostics Pack ensures high availability of mission-critical applications by reducing the complex tasks of diagnosing and correcting application performance problems, lowering the costs of managing web-based applications spanning multiple systems.

• Oracle Enterprise Manager Management Pack for Oracle Coherence

  This Enterprise Manager Management Pack provides monitoring, administration, and provisioning capabilities for Oracle Coherence.

1.6 BPEL Process Manager

Oracle BPEL Process Manager enables enterprises to model, deploy, and manage BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) processes. It includes a BPEL business process modeler, a scalable BPEL runtime engine, an extensible WSDL binding framework, and a monitoring console.

Oracle BPEL Process Manager can be separately licensed as a standalone product or as an option to WebLogic Suite. It is also a component of the following suites:

• SOA Suite for Non Oracle Middleware

• SOA Suite for Oracle Middleware

• Business Process Management Suite for Non Oracle Middleware

• Business Process Management Suite

1.7 WebLogic Integration

Oracle WebLogic Integration is a comprehensive and flexible java-based solution that allows integrating systems, data, and people within and across companies to make the most of existing assets wherever they are. It includes standards-based connectivity for all major packaged applications, support for best practice patterns, and a unified development environment designed to allow rapid construction of complex, transactional process scenarios. WebLogic Integration accelerates SOA initiatives by rapidly enabling corporate information and process integrations as a service to drive continued business innovation

Oracle WebLogic Integration is separately licensed as a standalone product.

1.8 Service Registry

Oracle Service Registry (OSR) provides a "DNS"-like reference for SOA. A fully compliant UDDI v3 registry, Oracle Service Registry provides a standards-based interface for SOA runtime infrastructure to dynamically discover and bind to deployed service end points. As part of the Oracle SOA Governance solution, Oracle Service Registry bridges the gap between the design time and runtime environments through automated synchronization with Oracle Enterprise Repository and Oracle SOA Suite.

Oracle Service Registry is separately licensed as a standalone product; however, OSR works together with Oracle Enterprise Repository, Oracle Web Services Manager, and Management Pack Plus for SOA to provide an enterprise-class SOA Governance solution.

Customers who licensed Oracle Internet Application Server (Java Edition, Standard Edition, or the Enterprise Edition), before August 8, 2008, continue to be licensed for the free 50 Service Registry entries. All Internet Application Server (any edition) licenses after August 8, 2008 do not contain these.

1.9 Enterprise Repository

The Oracle Enterprise Repository (OER) is a comprehensive repository that provides visibility into all SOA assets and their relationships to eliminate redundancy, promote reuse, and manage impact of change; end-to-end governance of the SOA lifecycle for risk reduction through automated, repeatable processes; and analytics that provide insight into the business value of SOA for better decision-making. Oracle Enterprise Repository includes a restricted use license to Oracle Business Process Management Suite for Non-Oracle Middleware to modify existing workflows that are supplied with OER and implement new Repository-centric workflows.

Oracle Enterprise Repository is separately licensed as a standalone product; however, OER works together with Oracle Service Registry, Oracle Web Services Manager, and Management Pack Plus for SOA to provide an enterprise-class SOA Governance solution.

1.10 Oracle Web Services Manager

Oracle Web Services Manager provides access management and access control for Web services.

The Oracle Web Services Manager option can be purchased as an option to any Oracle Internet Application Server edition.

1.11 SOA Suite for Non Oracle Middleware

Oracle SOA Suite is an integrated, best-in-class suite of products that helps you build, deploy, and manage deployments ranging from department-level to enterprise-wide systems. This 100% standards-based, hot-pluggable infrastructure interoperates with your existing IT investments. Many Oracle customers have succeeded in deploying high-volume, mission-critical SOA systems by leveraging the industry's best Service Bus and BPEL orchestration engine combined with Oracle's extensive connectivity options and renowned extreme-scalability on a grid computing infrastructure.

Oracle SOA Suite for Non-Oracle Middleware can be separately licensed, independent of any Oracle application server. Customers with other application servers, such as WebSphere, should license this version. Customers using Oracle Application Server or WebLogic Server should use Oracle SOA Suite for Oracle Middleware (Section 2.3, "SOA Suite for Oracle Middleware"). The suite includes:

• Oracle BPEL Process Manager (see Section 1.6, "BPEL Process Manager")

• Oracle Enterprise Service Bus

  Oracle Enterprise Service Bus (OESB) was introduced with the 10.1.3.1 release of the SOA Suite and remains our primary ESB on OC4J as well as on 3rd-party Java EE platforms such as WebSphere.

• Oracle Business Activity Monitoring

  Oracle Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) gives business executives the ability to monitor their enterprise business services in real-time and to correlate their KPIs (key performance indicators) to the actual business process. Oracle BAM also provides users the ability to change the business processes and take corrective action if the business environment changes. Oracle BAM is a complete solution for building real-time operational dashboards, monitoring and alerting applications over the web.

• Oracle Web Services Manager

  Oracle Web Services Manager provides management, monitoring, and enforcement of WS-Policy, WS-RM & QOS Policies.

• Oracle Business Rules

  Oracle Business Rules is a high performance light-weight business rules product that delivers agility and enables businesses to change their key decisions and policies rapidly, flexibly, and with confidence. Oracle Business Rules is seamlessly integrated with Oracle BPEL PM and rest of the SOA stack.

• Oracle Complex Event Processing (see Section 1.14, "Event-Driven Architecture Suite")

• JDeveloper and ADF

  Oracle JDeveloper is a free integrated enterprise development environment with end-to-end support for modeling, developing, debugging, optimizing, and deploying Java based SOA applications. Oracle JDeveloper introduces a new approach to Java EE development with features that enable visual and declarative development. The innovative Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF) simplifies Java EE development. Oracle JDeveloper's "productivity with choice" offers a choice of development approach, technology scope, and deployment platform.

• Adapters

  See Chapter 3, "Oracle Fusion Middleware Adapters" for a description of Fusion Middleware Adapters. Technology adapters are included in the SOA Suite license. Others require separate licensing.

1.12 Business Process Management Suite for Non Oracle Middleware

Oracle Business Process Management Suite (BPM Suite) is a software suite that integrates the modeling, integration, execution, management and monitoring of business processes into a complete lifecycle that supports rapid change. It enables the creation, execution, and optimization of business processes, providing for unparalleled collaboration between business and IT. As a result, business processes are automated and optimized to improve efficiency and agility while costs are lowered. Oracle Business Process Management leverages your existing IT investments and is specially tuned for line-of-business users. Using Oracle Business Process Management, you can improve productivity and visibility and provide your organization with the ability to respond to market needs like never before.

The Oracle Business Process Management suite comprises the following components:

• Oracle BPM

  Oracle BPM is the rebranded Aqualogic BPM product from BEA. This product is in a category commonly referred to as "pure-play BPM" and specializes in business user driven human-centric BPM initiatives. Oracle BPM includes a modeling environment that supports business and IT, a run-time server, and a workspace application for end user interactions. It supports Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) and XML Process Definition Language (XPDL) standards.

• Oracle BPEL Process Manager

  Oracle BPEL PM is a leading implementation of the Business Process Execution Language (BPEL). This product is especially strong in system-centric BPM processes, being built upon a robust service-oriented architecture. It includes a BPEL editor housed within JDeveloper, a BPEL run-time server, and a worklist application for end user interactions.

• Oracle Business Rules

  Oracle Business Rules is an inference capable declarative rules engine that enables externalization of rules and policies processes and applications. It includes an authoring environment and run-time server.

• Oracle Business Activity Monitoring

  Oracle Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) is a complete solution for building real-time operational dashboards, monitoring and alerting applications over the web. It enables customers to monitor business processes and their emanating events to understand the impact on the Key Performance Indicators affecting their business.

• Oracle WebCenter Suite (restricted use: for use with Process Portal only)

  Oracle Web Center suite is a user interaction suite for building portals, composite applications, and Enterprise 2.0 social and collaborative applications with seamless combination of search, publishing, and knowledge management. It also includes the Web Center Interaction product, which is the rebranded Aqualogic User Interaction (ALUI) product. Oracle BPM and Web Center Interaction have extensive integration and were offered together as Aqualogic BPM Collaboration Edition by BEA.

An integral part of the Oracle Business Process Management platform, though not included in BPM Suite, is Oracle Business Process Analysis Suite (Oracle BPA Suite). Oracle BPA Suite is a modeling and analysis tool targeted at business analysts. It supports rigorous process methodologies such as Six Sigma and hierarchical process modeling including value-chain diagrams, ultimately decomposing down to BPMN models. These BPMN models are shared with the BPEL editor, including full bidirectional synchronization, for seamless round trip design. BPA Suite also includes rich analysis, simulation, and reporting.

1.13 Oracle Business Process Analysis Suite

Oracle BPA Suite is a modeling and analysis tool targeted at business analysts. It supports rigorous process methodologies such as Six Sigma and hierarchical process modeling including value-chain diagrams, ultimately decomposing down to BPMN models. These BPMN models are shared with the BPEL editor, including full bidirectional synchronization, for seamless round trip design. BPA Suite also includes rich analysis, simulation, and reporting.

Although it is not included in the Oracle BPM Suite package, Oracle BPA Suite is an integral part of the Oracle Business Process Management platform.

1.14 Event-Driven Architecture Suite

The EDA Suite is a differentiated suite of Oracle integration products focused on meeting the event-driven application development needs of developers defining front-office applications that require low latency, high throughput and deterministic processing of data or event streams.

The Event-Driven Architecture Suite includes:

• Oracle Complex Event Processing (CEP)

  Oracle CEP (formerly BEA's WebLogic Event Server) is the first and only Java server for the development of high-performance event driven applications. It is a lightweight Java application container built from the ground up, based on Equinox OSGi, with shared services, including a powerful Complex Event Processing (CEP) service, which provides a rich, declarative environment to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of managing business operations. CEP detects patterns in the flow of events, often based on filtering, correlation, and aggregation across event sources and includes industry leading temporal and ordering capabilities. It supports ultra-high throughput (1 million/sec++) and microsecond latency.

• Oracle Business Activity Monitoring

  Oracle Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) is a complete solution for building real-time operational dashboards, monitoring and alerting applications over the web. It enables customers to monitor business processes and their emanating events to understand the impact on the Key Performance Indicators affecting their business.

• Oracle Enterprise Service Bus (see Section 1.11, "SOA Suite for Non Oracle Middleware")

• Oracle Business Rules

  Oracle Business Rules is an inference capable declarative rules engine that enables externalization of rules and policies processes and applications. It includes an authoring environment and run-time server.

• JRockit JVM

• Enterprise Messaging

The EDA Suite is separately licensed as a standalone product, however high-performance deployments of Oracle CEP will require WebLogic Application Grid for optimally low latency.

1.15 Oracle Forms and Reports

Oracle Forms and Reports can be separately licensed, independent of any Oracle Internet Application Server edition.

When you license it independently, Oracle Forms and Reports includes:

• Oracle Forms

• Forms client applet

• Forms Runtime

• Oracle Reports

• Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Application Server Control

1.16 Oracle Data Service Integrator

Oracle Data Service Integrator provides the ability to create canonical data service components for SOA, perform federated query capabilities from databases, web services and other sources, and execute multi-target database updates. Oracle Data Service Integrator supplies fine-grained security with data redaction, and is natively accessible from the Oracle Service Bus product.

Oracle Data Service Integrator is separately licensed as a standalone product.

Oracle Data Service Integrator includes restricted use Oracle WebLogic Server Enterprise Edition as host for only Oracle Data Service Integrator, including run-time components to provide Java runtime environment and HTTP support, as well as configuration and administration components used for the setup and management of these run-time components.

1.17 Oracle Data Profiling

Oracle Data Profiling enables business users to assess the quality of their data through metrics, to discover or infer rules based on this data, and to monitor the evolution of data quality over time.

Oracle Data Profiling has a prerequisite requirement that the license holder also owns a valid license for Oracle Data Integrator.

1.18 Oracle Data Integration Suite

Oracle Data Integration Suite is comprehensive software bundle for enabling scalable, highly-accessible data integration in any heterogeneous data environment. It can be separately licensed, independent of any Oracle Internet Application Server edition. Oracle Data Integration Suite includes:

• Oracle Data Integrator Enterprise Edition

• Oracle Data Relationship Management (up to maximum of 2,000 records per processor).

1.19 Oracle Data Integrator Enterprise Edition

Oracle Data Integrator Enterprise Edition is a comprehensive software package for enabling scalable data integration in heterogeneous data environments. Oracle Data Integrator Enterprise Edition is separately licensed independent of any Oracle Internet Application Server edition or Oracle Business Intelligence Server Enterprise Edition or Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition.

Oracle Data Integrator Enterprise Edition includes the following components:

• Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) - ODI is a heterogeneous platform for data integration that includes design time components for modelling and mapping, and run-time components for executing bulk data movement and transformation. ODI includes Job Scheduler Services, Changed Data Capture components, and a complete set of Knowledge Modules for access to an unlimited number of Source technologies.

• Oracle Warehouse Builder Enterprise ETL (OWB-EE) - OWB-EE is an enterprise class data integration platform for the Oracle Database that includes design time components for modelling and mapping, run-time components for executing bulk data movement and transformation, and administration components for managing the metadata repository.

Oracle Warehouse Builder Enterprise ETL extends the Oracle Database ETL features and includes the following functionality:

• Accessing sources and targets

  • Native support for heterogeneous databases, including the definition of new platform types, JDBC connectivity, knowledge modules, and code templates

  • Publishing and consuming web services, including integrating with process orchestration technologies such as Oracle BPEL Process Manager

  • Importing Cobol copybooks using the built-in wizard

  • Targeting XML files

• Working with dimensional objects

  • Creating slowly changing dimensions, types 2 and 3

  • Storing data in OLAP cube-organized materialized views

  • Defining orphan management policies

• Designing and executing ETL jobs

  • Right-time data warehousing utilizing queues and real-time mappings

  • Reusing and embedding mapping code with pluggable mappings

  • Specifying the load order of multiple targets in a single mapping

  • Partitioning and parallelizing updates to tables by utilizing the data chunking feature

  • Scheduling ETL jobs using the built-in Schedule interface

  • Using advanced process flows features (activity templates, use of the following activities: Assign, Set Status, For Loop, While Loop, Route, Notification, EJB, Java Class, and Webservice)

  • Designing mappings to handle complex types using the following operators: varray iterator, construct object, and expand object

  • Rapidly moving large amounts of data with transportable modules

  • Using spatial transformations and streams transformations

• Integrating with other products

  • Deploying metadata directly to Oracle Discoverer End User Layer

  • Deriving and deploying metadata to Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition

• Administering Warehouse Builder and its metadata repository

  • Managing environments, including promoting from development to test to production, using the multiple configurations functionality

  • Interactively analyzing metadata lineage and impact and automatically propagating metadata change using the Metadata Dependency Manager

  • Extending the metadata repository using the following: user-defined objects, user-defined associations, user-defined modules, creating icon sets and custom icons

  • Hosting the OWB design repository in an Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC) environment (executing in a RAC environment does not require this license)

For more information about Warehouse Builder functionality, see the Oracle Database 11.2 Documentation Library for Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence.

1.20 Oracle Data Quality for Data Integrator (Up to a Maximum of 100 Million Records)

Oracle Data Quality for Data Integrator is a comprehensive data quality platform that enables data standardization, match, merge, de-duplication, householding and name and address cleansing.

Data Quality for Data Integrator is licensed using the Per Processor metric for up to a maximum of 100 million records per calendar year. Records are to be any distinct non-duplicated set of related data attributes identified by a unique key that are cleansed in the production environment.

One Oracle Data Quality Rules rule set is included in the Data Quality for Data Integrator (up to a maximum of 100 million records) license. Each additional rule set must be licensed separately.

Oracle Data Profiling has a prerequisite requirement that the license holder also owns a valid license for Oracle Data Integrator.

1.21 Oracle Data Quality for Data Integrator (for Greater than 100 Million Records)

Oracle Data Quality for Data Integrator (for greater than 100 Million Records) allows usage of Oracle Data Quality for Data Integrator over 100 million records per year. It is licensed using the Per 1000 Records metric. Records are to be any distinct non-duplicated set of related data attributes identified by a unique key that are cleansed in the production environment.

Data Quality for Data Integrator (for greater than 100 Million Records) has a prerequisite requirement that the license holder also owns a valid license for Oracle Data Integrator.

1.22 Oracle Data Quality Rules for Data Integrator

Oracle Data Quality Rules for Data Integrator provide a set of pre-defined cleansing rules that extend Oracle Data Quality for Data Integrator capabilities explicitly for name and address cleansing for one or more countries.

Each Oracle Data Quality Rules for Data Integrator license gives the holder the capability to use these rules for one given country.

Rule Sets are available for the following countries and each Rule Set is licensed separately: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Peru, Philippines, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, United States, Venezuela.

1.23 Oracle Application Adapters for Data Integration

Oracle Application Adapters for Data Integration provide specific software components for reverse-engineering metadata from, and extracting bulk data from various ERP software applications. Each unique Application Adapter for Data Integration is licensed separately, but must be used with Oracle Data Integrator Enterprise Edition and the Data Integrator component.

Application Adapters for Data Integration are available for PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, E-Business Suite, Siebel, and SAP Applications. Each Application Adapter for Data Integration is licensed separately.

1.24 Oracle Application Adapters for Warehouse Builder

Oracle Application Adapters for Warehouse Builder provide specific software connectors for reverse-engineering metadata from, and extracting bulk data from various ERP software applications. Each unique Application Adapter for Warehouse Builder is licensed separately, but must be used with Oracle Data Integrator Enterprise Edition and the Oracle Warehouse Builder component.

Application Adapters for Warehouse Builder are available for PeopleSoft, SAP, Siebel, and E-Business Suite.