Oracle has impressed most of us with its database products and, in my
opinion, they offer an impressive J2EE infrastructure as well. To select the
right technology for migrating the popular Alamo Rent A Car Web site from its
generation-old Microsoft platform to a state-of-the-art J2EE stack, we took a
close look at Oracle's latest product, Oracle Application Server 10g, in
conjunction with the well-integrated Oracle JDeveloper Integrated Developer
Environment. During this review, Oracle's product established itself as a
formidable choice for a standards-compatible J2EE development and runtime
platform. It continues to prove its enterprise-grade reliability by running
the mission-critical Alamo.com Web site almost flawlessly since August. What
is equally important to us is that it's a choice for the future, with
industry-leading support for service-oriented architect... (more)