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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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