Oracle Application Server 10g (g is for Grid), is an integrated, standards-based software platform. It is part of Oracle's so called Fusion Middleware technology stack. The heart of Oracle Application Serves consists of Oracle HTTP Server (Apache HTTP Server) and OC4J (OracleAS Containers for J2EE) which is used for deploying J2EE based applications. The latest version of OC4J is fully compatible with the J2EE 1.3 specifications. // Grid computing uses the resources of many separate computers connected by a network (usually the internet) to solve large-scale computation problems. ... An application server is a server computer in a computer network dedicated to running certain software applications. ... Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL), one of the major companies developing database management systems, tools for database development, and enterprise resource planning software, dates from 1977 and has offices in more than 145 countries around the world. ... Apache HTTP Server is an open source HTTP web server for Unix-like systems (BSD, Linux, and UNIX systems), Microsoft Windows, Novell Netware and other platforms. ... Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition or J2EE is a Standard (albeit with no ISO or ECMA standard) for developing distributed Multi-tier architecture applications, based on modular components running on an application server. ...
Oracle Forms is an easy to use Rapid Application Development (RAD) environment for developing database applications. ... JDeveloper is a Java IDE from Oracle. ... Oracle Enterprise Manager contains three releases. ...