ABSTRACT
Oracle rose to prominence on the back of its Oracle RDBMS (relational database management system). All of the products on the left side of Figure 6.1 are related in some way to Oracle’s primary database product. With each release of its database, Oracle extended the database’s capabilities to integrate with current technology trends at that time. In 2004, Oracle Corporation shipped release 10g (g standing for grid) as the thenlatest version of Oracle Database. Oracle Application Server 10g using Java EE integrates with the server part of that version of the database, making it possible to deploy web technology applications. The application server comprises the first middle-tier software designed for grid computing. The interrelationship between Oracle 10g and Java allows developers to set up stored procedures written in the Java language as well as those written in the traditional Oracle database programming language, PL/SQL.
