Re: Jserver - Future

etechweb_at_yahoo.com (Sebastiano Pilla) writes:

> Tim Cross <tcross_at_nospam.une.edu.au> wrote:
>
> I'll try to answer, but you'll have to accept that sometimes product
> names are rather poorly chosen.
>
> JServer: name for the Java VM running inside an Oracle instance, either
> for an 8i database or 9i database. As far as I know, packages like
> utl_smtp depend on it.
>
> JServ: old servlet engine by Apache, distributed by Oracle with their 8i
> database.
>
> OC4J: servlet, JSP and EJB container, originally developed by Ironflare
> under the Orion name, about 1.5 years ago licensed by Oracle and now
> developed separately, is the Java core of Oracle's 9i application
> server.
>
> Tomcat: servlet and JSP (not EJB) container developed by the Jakarta
> project, you can think of it as an evolution of JServ if you like, but
> the two are completely different code bases.
>
> You cannot expect to find OC4J in your Oracle 8i database installation,
> though if you download OC4J from Oracle it can be made to connect to an
> Oracle 8i database.
>

Thanks for the clarification - it seems it is as I suspected, confusion caused by too much similarity in names which in turn has lead to posts talking in crossed purposes.

So, in summary -

8i has JServ as its servlet engine and 9iAS has OC4J and therefore the original posters question about the future is that Oracle is dropping JServ in favor of OC4J.

and here I was thinking Oracles naming changes etc relating to just the web stuff was confusing - seems its all being consistent and continuing now with its java stuff in the same way (but not actually oracles fault I guess - we just must be running out of original names for stuff)~

Tim Received on Wed Oct 16 2002 - 21:42:14 CDT