Oracle Fusion Middleware is a comprehensive family of products ranging from Java
EE and development tools, to integration solutions, to identity management,collaboration, and business intelligence reporting. Oracle Fusion Middleware offerscomplete support for development, deployment, and management.
Oracle Fusion Middleware provides the following components:
■ Oracle WebLogic Server, an enterprise-ready Java application server that supports
the deployment of mission-critical applications in a robust, secure, highly
available, and scalable environment. Oracle WebLogic Server is an ideal
foundation for building applications based on Service Oriented Architecture
(SOA).
See Also: Oracle Fusion Middleware Introduction to Oracle WebLogic
Server
■ Oracle SOA Suite, a complete set of service infrastructure components for
designing, deploying, and managing composite applications. Oracle SOA Suite
enables services to be created, managed, and orchestrated into composite
applications and business processes. Composites enable you to easily assemble
multiple technology components into one SOA composite application.
See Also: Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide for Oracle
SOA Suite
■ Oracle WebCenter, an integrated set of components with which you can create
social applications, enterprise portals, collaborative communities, and composite
applications, built on a standards-based, service-oriented architecture. Oracle
WebCenter combines dynamic user interface technologies with which to develop
rich internet applications, the flexibility and power of an integrated, multi-channel
portal framework, and a set of horizontal Enterprise 2.0 capabilities delivered as
services that provide content, collaboration, presence and social networking
capabilities. Based on these components, Oracle WebCenter also provides an
out-of-the-box enterprise-ready customizable application, WebCenter Spaces, with
a configurable work environment that enables individuals and groups to work
and collaborate more effectively.
See Also: Oracle Fusion Middleware Developer's Guide for Oracle
WebCenter
■ Oracle HTTP Server, which provides a Web listener for Java EE applications and
the framework for hosting static and dynamic pages and applications over the
Web. Based on the proven technology of the Apache HTTP Server, Oracle HTTP
Server includes significant enhancements that facilitate load balancing,
administration, and configuration.
See Also: Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide for Oracle
HTTP Server
■ Oracle Web Cache, a content-aware server accelerator, or reverse proxy, that
improves the performance, scalability, and availability of Web sites that run on
Oracle Fusion Middleware.
See Also: Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide for Oracle
Web Cache
■ Oracle Identity Management, which provides a shared infrastructure for all Oracle
applications. It also provides services and interfaces that facilitate third-party
enterprise application development. These interfaces are useful for application
developers who need to incorporate identity management into their applications.
See Also: Oracle Fusion Middleware Integration Guide for Oracle
Identity Management
■ Oracle Internet Directory, a general purpose directory service that enables fast
retrieval and centralized management of information about dispersed users and
network resources. It combines Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
Version 3 with the high performance, scalability, robustness, and availability of an
Oracle Database.
See Also: Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide for Oracle
Internet Directory
■ Oracle Virtual Directory, an LDAP version 3 enabled service that provides
virtualized abstraction of one or more enterprise data sources into a single
directory view. Oracle Virtual Directory provides the ability to integrate
LDAP-aware applications into diverse directory environments while minimizing
or eliminating the need to change either the infrastructure or the applications. It
supports a diverse set of clients, such as Web applications and portals, and it can
connect to directories, databases, and Web Services.
See Also: Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide for Oracle
Virtual Directory
■ Oracle Identity Federation, a self-contained federation solution that provides the
infrastructure that enables identities and their relevant entitlements to be
propagated across security domains—this applies to domains existing within an
organization as well as between organizations.
See Also: Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide for Oracle
Identity Federation
■ Oracle Web Services Manager, which provides a way to centrally define and
manage policies that govern Web services operations, including access control
(authentication and authorization), reliable messaging, Message Transmission
Optimization Mechanism (MTOM), WS-Addressing, and Web services
management. Policies can be attached to multiple Web services, requiring no
modification to the existing Web services.
See Also: Oracle Fusion Middleware Security and Administrator's Guide
for Web Services
■ Oracle Platform Security Services (OPSS), which provides enterprise product
development teams, systems integrators, and independent software vendors
(ISVs) with a standards-based, portable, integrated, enterprise-grade security
framework for Java Standard Edition (Java SE) and Java Enterprise Edition (Java
EE) applications.
OPSS provides an abstraction layer in the form of standards-based application
programming interfaces (APIs) that insulate developers from security and identity
management implementation details. With OPSS, developers do not need to know
the details of cryptographic key management or interfaces with user repositories and
other identity management infrastructures. Using OPSS, in-house developed
applications, third-party applications, and integrated applications benefit from the
same uniform security, identity management, and audit services across the
enterprise.
OPSS is available in both JavaEE and JavaSE environments. OPSS is standards based
and designed to be portable to third-party application servers.
See Also: Oracle Fusion Middleware Security Guide
■ Oracle Portal, a Web-based tool for building and deploying e-business portals. It
provides a secure, manageable environment for accessing and interacting with
enterprise software services and information resources. A portal page makes data
from multiple sources accessible from a single location.
See Also: Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide for Oracle
Portal
■ Oracle Business Intelligence, a complete, integrated solution that addresses
business intelligence requirements. Oracle Business Intelligence includes Oracle
Business Intelligence Reporting and Publishing, Oracle Business Intelligence
Discoverer, and Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher.
See Also: Oracle Fusion Middleware Configuration Guide for Oracle
Business Intelligence Discoverer