| Java Programming Model |
| 1 | J2EE Support | Full Support to J2EE 1.3 | Full J2EE1.3 Support through Oracle Application Server Containers for J2EE(OC4J10g(10.1.2))and J2EE1.4 support through OC4J10g(10.1.3)Developer Preview. |
| 2 | XML Support | XML Support | Full XML Support |
| Other Programming Languages |
| 3 | Support for other languages | Full support for ABAP | Has a core component Oracle HTTP Server which gives the for languages like C, C++, PL/SQL,PERL,Java |
| Web Services |
| 4 | Full Web Services Support | Yes | Yes.- Stateless EJBs as Web Services
- PL/SQL stored procedures as Web Services
- JMS topics and queue as document-style Web Services
- Java classes as RPC or document-style Web Services
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| 5 | Private UDDI registry support | Yes | Yes. Supports publishing and Query with UDDI and typed and untyped SOAP message with SOAP header access via an API |
| 6 | Testing the Web Services | Yes | Yes. A dynamic WSDL tester is provided to create web based clients and simplify the testing of Web Services during development |
| Database Support |
| 7 | JDBC Support | Yes. Using JDBC ,all popular databases can be accessed by using corresponding drivers.Also shipped with MaxDB. | Yes. Uses Oracle’s JDBC Drivers and supports relational as well as object relational data.OC4J supports both Oracle and non Oracle JDBC Drivers.Some examples of non Oracle Databases : IBM DB2 UDB,Microsoft SQL Server,Informix and Sybase |
| 8 | Connection Pooling | Yes.Using Visual administrator it is taken care of. | Yes.Provides the facility to allocate the resource adapter instances by caching them in a pool and checking the connections in or out as per requirement. |
| Application Development |
| 9 | Ease of Development | Application Development is very easy .SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio is Eclipse based IDE,hence development is facilitated. This provides different perspectives for different types of projects which can be deployed on J2EE Engine. | Easy Application Development. Uses Oracle JDeveloper as a part of Oracle Developer Suite , which can create Java applications that are deployed on an Oracle Application Server Platform. Provides various wizards to create Java and J2EE objects and project types.e.g.- A Data Form wizard.
- A beans wizard for creating Java Beans and BeanInfo classes
- A deployement wizard providing one-click deployement of J2EE applications to OC4J instances by caching them in a pool and checking the connections in or out as per requirement.
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| 10 | Debugging Support | Yes. | Yes. |
| 11 | MVC Support | Yes.Facility to create the models for RFCs,Web Services,UML Models etc | Yes.Web Services and UML Modeling |
| 12 | Testing Tools Support | Yes. | Yes. |
| Web Server Support |
| 13 | HTTP Server | Yes. | Yes. It is based on the Apache Web Server which handles incoming HTTP requests and can serve as proxy server. |
| 14 | Web Server plug ins | Yes. | Yes. |
| Security |
| 15 | Basic Authentication and Authorization | Yes. | Yes. |
| 16 | Support for JAAS | Yes. | Yes. |
| 17 | SSO | Yes. | Yes. |
| 18 | Identity Management | Yes. | Yes. |
| 19 | SSL support | Yes. | Yes. |
| 20 | X.509 certificates | Yes. | Yes. |
| Platform Support |
| 21 | Platforms | Microsoft Windows(2000,NT,XP),Linux,IBM AIX,Sun Solaris,HP-UX | Windows ,RedHat and SuSE Linux and Unix platforms like HP Compaq Tru64,HP/UX , IBM AIX , and Sun Solaris . |
| Application Connectivity |
| 22 | JCA Support | Yes. | Yes. |
| 23 | JDBC Support | Yes. | Yes. |
| Persistence |
| 24 | EJB CMP and Session Beans Support | Yes. | Yes. |
| Performance, Scalability, Availability ,Third Party support |
| 25 | Performance
Scalability
Availability | Yes. | Yes.High Performance throough OracleAS Web Cache,Java Object Cache and Web Object Cache |
| 26 | Third Party tools and plug-ins support | Yes. | Yes. |
| 27 | Logging Support | Yes. | Yes. |
| Administration,Monitoring,Workload Management |
| 28 | Remote Administration | Yes.Through Visual administrator. | Yes.Through Oracle Enterprise Manager. |
| 29 | Clustering Support | Yes.Throough Visual Administrator and Enqueue Server | Yes.Through Application Server Control |
