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( ADF ), a foundation for all Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 Oracle products mentioned as fol-
lows:
• WebCenter, a web-based collaboration suite, replacing Oracle forms, consolidat-
ing portals, social media management, and content management
• BAM Studio, proactive service monitoring, and dashboard creation
• BI Suite, analytics, reporting, OLAP, and scorecard management
• Enterprise Manager consoles
Needless to say that with the acquisition of Sun, ADF Java-based development is gaining
a new boost.
So that was just a quick glance at some SOA and Oracle combined milestones, but history
is not over yet. Distributed computing is setting new challenges, which we could address
by the proper application of tools, principles and methodologies, and combinations of pat-
terns. Oracle has nothing to prove really. It's obvious from the history line that only two
options are available: Silo and SOA. Being the main consumer of its own Fusion techno-
logy, Oracle set the direction for cost-effective application collaboration based on the
SOA principles and standards, moving from a Silo-based approach. Let's now see how
these concrete tools can be fitted into Oracle's vision of a standard technical infrastructure.