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Portals and User Interaction
Oracle WebCenter Suite is a standards-based enterprise portal software product that is designed to enable external and employee users to efficiently find the
information they need from websites and business applications within the organization; to create collaborative websites, online workspaces, discussion forums,
integrated real-time presence and web conferencing to share information with others; and to use a variety of emerging technologies such as really simple
syndication (RSS) feeds, tag clouds, linking and search to personalize information delivery. Oracle WebCenter Suite can be used to build a variety of web-based
systems including extranet websites, intranet portals, task-oriented collaborative applications, and team communities.
Development Tools
Oracle JDeveloper is an integrated software environment that is designed to facilitate rapid development of a variety of different types of applications using
Oracle Fusion Middleware software and popular open source technologies. Oracle JDeveloper software provides support for developing Java applications; web
services, composite SOA applications and business processes; rich user interfaces using AJAX/DHTML and Flash technologies; and websites using popular
scripting languages. Oracle JDeveloper software also provides comprehensive application lifecycle management facilities including modeling, building,
debugging, unit testing, profiling, and optimizing applications and is integrated with the Oracle Application Development Framework software, which provides a
declarative framework for building business applications, and popular open source tools, including Eclipse and NetBeans.
Java
Oracle Fusion Middleware software products and our next-generation Oracle Fusion Applications are built on our Java technology platform, which we believe is
a key technology advantage for our business.
Java is the computer industry’s most widely-used software development language and is viewed as a global standard. The Java programming language and
platform together represent one of the most popular and powerful development environments in the world, one that is used by millions of developers globally and
on which many of the world’s applications run.
Java is designed to enable developers to write software on a single platform and run it on many different platforms, independent of operating system and
hardware architecture. There is a large, global community of Java developers and Java has been adopted by both ISVs that have built their products on Java and
by enterprise organizations building custom applications or consuming Java-based ISV products.
For customers, the Java platform is designed to enable a variety of compatible applications, independent of their vendor, and to support a global community of
Java developers, support engineers, and knowledge bases that can help customers reduce the risk of and time to deployment as well as the ongoing cost of
ownership and maintenance.
There are three primary editions of Java (Standard, Enterprise and Micro) that support a broad spectrum of usage ranging from mobile phones to desktop
computers to server applications. Java can also be found embedded in a variety of devices and machines, including printers, cars, airplanes, tablets, DVD players,
set-top boxes, pens, smart meters and bank ATM machines; and JavaCard is designed for specialized use in smart cards. Certain of our products are built
primarily to enable customers to run Java applications on and with them, such as Oracle WebLogic Server and Oracle Coherence. Many more of our products are
built with and rely on Java, such as the Oracle Fusion Middleware software product family and Oracle Fusion Applications.
We expect to continue to innovate and invest in Java technology for the benefit of customers and the Java community.
We also offer a selection of software products that are complementary to our database and middleware products, including Oracle Enterprise Manager
management tools and Oracle VM server virtualization software.
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Source: ORACLE CORP, 10-K, June 28, 2011 Powered by Morningstar® Document Research℠