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The Oracle SOA development roadmap - past,
present, and future
Nowadays, Oracle offers probably the most complete family of products. This family has
two distinctive SOA characteristics—each member of the family is the "best-of-breed" in
its class (read: framework) and each product is hot-pluggable. Thus, the portfolio itself fol-
lows the principles of Composability, and because it has been shaped mostly through the
chain of acquisitions, it's genuinely vendor neutral.
This type of SOA packaging would not be possible if Oracle didn't follow the service ori-
entation principles. This fact alone makes it quite attractive for many industries and enter-
prises. For example, you would naturally choose a doctor who is capable of taking his own
remedies. It is also quite natural that this status quo was not always this happy. We all have
good and bad times during different phases of our SOA endeavors (
ht-
tp://oracle.com.edgesuite.net/timeline/oracle/
)
. Please refer to the following table:
Oracle products timeline
Industry standards timeline
Pre-SOA development
Year
Product(s)
Type
Description
Standard
Agency
1979 Oracle v 2
DB
First commercial version
1985 Oracle v 5
DB
Implemented in a client-server model
1988 Oracle v 6
DB
PL/SQL engine added to DB
Stored procedures and triggers and most mature traditional
RDBMS
ISO 9075, Entry Level SQL92
Standard
1992 Oracle v 7
DB
ANSI
RDBMS with SQL object orientation, AQ introduced (persistent
messaging)
1997 Oracle v 8
DB
1998 Oracle v 8
i
DB
Integration with JVM (here
i
stands for the Internet)
XML
W3C
1998 JDeveloper 1.0
IDE
The first IDE release (based on Borland code)
SOAP
W3C
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