Re: Do I still need Oracle Application Server with Oracle 8i?

You could achieve the same goal by running an 'empty' Oracle 8i instance on the middle tier as well. One question would be which has a smaller memory footprint, or how do they scale. 8i would seem to have the advantage in this respect though I cannot say from experience that this is true.

Cheers

Rod Stewart wrote:

> This may depend on your overall architecture. What OAS gives you more than
> anything else is a middle tier that can (sort of) be managed independantly
> of your database server or your clients. It enables you to run varying
> types of clients of varying 'thickness' in varying ways. Basically, it
> makes your architecture more flexible and fulfills the same role as other
> application servers (Netdynamics being another one that comes to mind).
> This sort of flexibility may not be something you are concerned about and it
> doesn't sound as if you absolutly need OAS.
>
> This is all very vague and probably hasn't helped much but there you have my
> 2 cents worth.
>
> Rod J. Stewart
>
> jmsalvo <jmsalvo_at_yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
> news:7vjdhd$fbm$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com...
> >
> >
> > 1) Now that Oracle8i has its own CORBA and EJB server, do I still need
> > Oracle Application Server 4.x, if all my components will be written in
> > Java?? In other words, what can OAS do that Oracle 8i'S built-in EJB
> > and CORBA server cannot do??
> >
> > 2) Does anyone know what are Oracle's goals between these two products?
> > Fully merge them together, drop OAS??
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > John Salvo
> >
> >
> >
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> > Before you buy.
Received on Wed Nov 03 1999 - 09:55:42 CST