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Chapter 9. Oracle Development

Oracle Application Server provides both a development platform and a
deployment platform. Many of the components in Oracle Application
Server are based on open standards, such as Java and the Apache Web
Server, and those are described in earlier chapters of this book.

But Oracle Application Server is an Oracle product, and many users
consider acquiring the product because of their past involvement with
the Oracle database. Consequently, three areas of Oracle Application
Server focus on Oracle-specific technologies:

PL/SQL, the long-standing language used within the Oracle database

Deployment services for Oracle Forms applications

Deployment services for Oracle Reports applications

OracleAS Forms Services and Reports Services come as part of the
Enterprise Edition of Oracle Application Server
10g. You can install a version of Oracle
Application Server specifically to support these services. This
installation includes the OracleAS Infrastructure (described in Chapter 2), which is used to implement security
services for Oracle Forms and Oracle Reports.

This chapter describes the use of PL/SQL, OracleAS Forms Services,
and OracleAS Reports Services in Oracle Application Server.