What Is Oracle9iAS?
Oracle9iAS is Oracle Corporation's integrated Web server. Figure 8.9 illustrates Oracle's Web server technology. This offering from Oracle Corp is a web server and application server combined. Along with processing HTTP/HTML/XML type requests, it can host Oracle Forms, Java, Perl, PL/SQL, and many more engines as well as cache both HTTP and database requests. When a listener receives an HTTP transaction from a Web browser (end user), the transaction is passed to the Oracle/Apache HTTP Server. The HTTP Server then decides what kind of request this is and routes it properly through the Web server to the appropriate facilities. For example, if you are running a Web-based Oracle Form, the request will be routed to the business ...
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