Oracle8i & Java: An Enterprise Java Platform

Sun, 01 Nov 1998 00:00:00 EST

The Internet is rapidly evolving from a static, stateless, information-exchange medium to a dynamic transactional medium that offers new opportunities to change how we do business. To exploit these opportunities, leading-edge independent software vendors and corporate IT organizations are beginning to build and deploy enterprise applications using open Internet standards. They use standard Internet browsers and HTML as clients, model their business logic in Java and access these applications via open Internet communication protocols such as HTTP and IIOP. They deploy applications on a small number of professionally managed, highly scalable and high-performance application servers and database servers.

Enterprise Java- the Need for Java Servers

Fri, 01 Aug 1997 00:00:00 EDT

Java has gained a considerable amount of attention and excitement in the software development and information technology communities during the last year, driven by its promise to fundamentally transform and simplify the way in which we develop and deploy applications. Software developers are attracted by Java's simplicity, power and productivity as a programming language. Java is safe; it is object-oriented while much simpler than C++ and it has a component model - JavaBeansª - that facilitates application assembly and visual development. Chief Information Officers are attracted by Java's ability to make good on the promise of the Internet and Intranets - to allow companies to reach a very wide audience with their products and services while leveraging a radically lower cost and more flexible deployment infrastructure.

Articles by Dave Rosenberg

Oracle8i & Java: An Enterprise Java Platform

Enterprise Java- the Need for Java Servers