OReilly Oracle Essentials Oracle Database 10g 3rd Edition Feb 2004 ISBN 0596005857

A.14 Chapter 14, Network Deployment Models This chapter has undergone the most extensive revisions of any chapter in the book; even its name has changed (from Oracle and The Web) The Oracle Database 10g release claims to take Oracle beyond the Web into the grid, so in addition to briefly covering features described in previous editionsfor example, Oracle Application Server[1]it also includes a summary of the needs of grid computing and how the Oracle Database 10g release is addressing them [1] For more information on Oracle Application Server 10g than we can include in this chapter, see the book Oracle Application Server 10g Essentials, expected to be released later in 2004 HTML DB This is a development tool for creating HTML-based applications, creating and modifying database structures, and importing data into the Oracle database Direct calls to Java stored procedures You no longer have to create a PL/SQL wrapper to call a Java stored procedure XML DB XML DB is a set of improvements for the XML capabilities of the Oracle database Failover notification Oracle Application Server 10g is notified of a failure in a Real Application Cluster node Enterprise Configuration Manager This tool is a part of Enterprise Manager 10g that allows you to discover, compare, and modify the configuration of servers across your enterprise Application Performance Management This new tool allows you to set up beacons, which run userdefined transactions from remote locations and send the results back to the Enterprise Manager repository Chapter 14 Network Deployment Models The previous chapters of this book focused on the features and architecture of the Oracle database This chapter steps beyond the confines of specific features to look at the different deployment architectures that have been a focus of the last three Oracle releases This book is now in its third edition We wrote the first edition about Oracle8 and Oracle8i, and added Oracle9i coverage to the second edition In that second edition, we entitled this chapter "Oracle and the Web," recognizing that the capabilities of the Oracle database were being expanded beyond its traditional roleindeed, the database was becoming one of the pillars of an overall Internet platform solution With the release of Oracle Database 10g, Oracle Corporation is promoting another deployment architecture, the emerging concept known as grid computing This chapter looks at how the Internet and its associated architecturewith its expanded scope and adherence to standardshave impacted the Oracle database over the past few years It also provides a brief overview of an important complementary part of the "Oracle platform," Oracle Application Server Finally, the chapter describes how grid computing fits into this evolution This new version of this final chapter reflects the state of the Oracle platform with the release of Oracle Database 10g, with less emphasis on some of the functionality that went exclusively toward supporting previous versions of the Oracle platform  ... This book is now in its third edition We wrote the first edition about Oracle8 and Oracle8 i, and added Oracle9 i coverage to the second edition In that second edition, we entitled this chapter "Oracle and the Web," recognizing that the capabilities of the... "Oracle and the Web," recognizing that the capabilities of the Oracle database were being expanded beyond its traditional roleindeed, the database was becoming one of the pillars of an overall Internet platform solution With the release of Oracle Database 10g, Oracle Corporation is... This new version of this final chapter reflects the state of the Oracle platform with the release of Oracle Database 10g, with less emphasis on some of the functionality that went exclusively toward supporting previous versions of the Oracle platform