Oracle ventures into Web Services, SOA, BPEL and J2EE

Oracle has been involved in J2EE application servers for quite some time now with their Oracle Application Server but with their newest release they are surfing the web services and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) wave. The newest version of JDeveloper supports full Model-View-Controller (MVC) implementations using a selection of technologies/standards including Struts, Java Server Faces (JSF), Enterprise Java Beans (EJB), Java Server Pages (JSP) to develop your applications. To support SOA Oracle is supporting full development of Web Services and now includes BPEL support for services process execution modelling and execution via the recently acquired Oracle BPEL Process Manager product. All these technologies can be combined and developed using the graphical JDeveloper environment that also allows the developer to view the underlying XML structures. For more information about Oracle's Web Services support and the components supporting SOA, BPEL and MVC development go to this page.

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Oracle Web Services Page
Oracle Application Server
Oracle BPEL Process Manager product
JDeveloper