Oracle expands support for next-generation SOA

SAN FRANCISCO: Furthering its commitment to developers, customer choice and open, flexible IT environments, Oracle announced expanded support of open standards for building, deploying, managing and securing service-oriented applications with Oracle Fusion Middleware.

Oracle contributes to hundreds of new technology standards and is expanding its leadership on a number of emerging standards spanning Java, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web 2.0 and Security.

By driving and supporting open technology standards with Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle helps its customers and partners reduce application development time and maintenance costs; improve interoperability between systems; enable application reuse, help to increase the value of existing IT investments; and prevent vendor lock-in.

Among the areas in which Oracle is involved in driving, developing and supporting new open standards in Oracle Fusion Middleware are:

Next-Generation Java Application Development

To simplify the development of data-intensive applications, Oracle supports Java Server Faces, Apache Struts, Java Persistence Architecture (JPA), EJB 3.0, Service Data Objects (SDO), O-R and O-XML Mappings, REST and Spring Framework 2.0.

Service-Oriented Architecture and Composite Applications

To enable enterprise SOA, Oracle supports component-oriented SOA infrastructure and applications through Java API for XML RPC (JAX-RPC), Java API for XML Web Services (JAX-WS), Services Component Architecture (SCA), XML Query, XPath, XSLT, Java Business Integration (JBI), Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) 2.0, Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN), Business Process Domain Metamodel (BPDM), WS-Policy, WS-Distributed Management, WS-Reliable Messaging, WS-Addressing and WS-Eventing. Oracle also supports non-Web Services styles of interactions such as those based on ATOM and REST.

Web 2.0, Portals and Enterprise Mashups

In order to support rich, dynamic, multi-channel interactions using technologies such as VoIP, and to bring collaborative Web 2.0 technologies such as Wikis and Blogs to enterprise software, Oracle supports Asynchronous Javascript and XML (AJAX), RSS, WSRP 2.0, XHTML, DHTML, JSR-168, JSR-170, and Adobe Flash.

Enterprise Security and Security for Service-Oriented Architecture

In order to secure service-oriented applications and support secure business to business interaction, Oracle supports key standards such as WS-Security, SAML 2.0, WS-Fed, WS-Trust, XKMS, XACML, SPML, XML Enc, XML-Sig and DSML.

Industry Specific Solutions

In order to further accelerate the adoption of SOA and new technologies in specific vertical industries, Oracle supports key industry standards in the telecommunications, health care, retail, and high technology industries like Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), ParLAY Web Services, IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), JSR-116, and Java API for Internetworking (JaIN). Oracle also supports key technologies like Electronics Product Code (EPCGlobal) for RFID, Electronic Business Markup Language for XML (ebXML), HL7, RosettaNet, EDI X12, EDIFact, EDI AS/2 (EDI over the Internet), and others.

"Standards have always been central to Oracle's product strategy because our customers are looking for simplicity, choice and interoperability in their IT environments," said Thomas Kurian, senior vice president Oracle Server Technologies.

"Oracle Fusion Middleware is built on open standard technologies that offer choice and increased developer productivity to customers. Oracle continues to lead the market in defining and implementing key new technology standards and delivering them with our hot-pluggable middleware architecture" he added.

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