Oracle news

Oracle has released a new version of its Application Service with special emphasis in the SOA technologies:

At Oracle OpenWorld today in San Francisco, Oracle Corp. advanced its service-oriented architecture (SOA) middleware platform with the introduction of Oracle Application Server 10g Release 3, a key component of the Oracle Fusion middleware, and the technology foundation for the company's Project Fusion initiative for next-generation technologies, applications and services.

Coming on the heels of Oracle Application Server 10g Release 2, which became generally available in July, Release 3 offers tighter integration and adds a new rules engine, advanced security and support for SAML 1.0 and 2.0, a more robust enterprise service bus (ESB), enhanced interoperability and open source support, and integration of Oracle Web Services Manager with Oracle BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) Process Manager.

Enhancements to Oracle JDeveloper and Oracle Application Developer Framework include support for Java 5.0 and Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) 1.4; JavaServer Faces (JSF) and Struts-based development; and Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) 3.0.

Release 3 supports WS-I compliance and standards such as WS-Reliable Messaging, WS-Security, WS-Federation, Web Services Metadata, Web Services Invocation Framework (WSIF) and REST (Representation State Transfer) Web Services. And Release 3 will be certified with a spate of open source software including Spring, Apache Struts, Apache Axis, Apache MyFaces, JUnit, CVS (Concurrent Versions System) and Eclipse.