Oracle Fusion Middleware (FMW, also known as Fusion Middleware) consists of several

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products from

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. FMW spans multiple services, including Java EE and developer tools,

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services,

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, and

content management Content management (CM) is a set of processes and technologies that supports the collection, managing, and publishing of information in any form or medium. When stored and accessed via computers, this information may be more specifically referre ...

. FMW depends on

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s such as BPEL,

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and JMS. Oracle Fusion Middleware provides software for the development, deployment, and management of

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(SOA). It includes what Oracle calls "hot-pluggable" architecture, designed to facilitate integration with existing applications and systems from other software vendors such as IBM,

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, and

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Evolution

Many of the products included under the FMW banner do not themselves qualify as

middleware Middleware is a type of computer software that provides services to software applications beyond those available from the operating system. It can be described as "software glue". Middleware makes it easier for software developers to implement c ...

products: "Fusion Middleware" essentially represents a re-branding of many of Oracle products outside of Oracle's core

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and applications-software offerings—compare Oracle Fusion. Oracle acquired many of its FMW products via acquisitions. This includes products from

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and Stellent. In order to provide standards-based software to assist with business process automation, HP has incorporated FMW into its "

(SOA) portfolio". Oracle leveraged its

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(CNC) technology acquired from its

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/ JD Edwards 2005 purchase. Oracle Fusion Applications, based on Oracle Fusion Middleware, were finally released in September 2010. According to Oracle, as of 2013, over 120,000 customers were using Fusion Middleware. This includes over 35 of the world's 50 largest companies and more than 750 of the ''

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'' Global 1000, with FMW also supported by 7,500 partners.

Assessments

In January 2008, Oracle WebCenter Content (formerly Universal Content Management) won ''

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s "Technology of the Year" award for "Best Enterprise Content Manager", with Oracle SOA Suite winning the award for "Best Enterprise Service Bus". In 2007,

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wrote that "Oracle Fusion Middleware has reached a degree of completeness that puts it on par with, and in some cases ahead of, competing software stacks", and reported revenue from the suite of over US$1 billion during FY06, estimating the revenue from the genuinely middleware aspects at US$740 million.

Oracle Fusion Middleware components

* Infrastructure / Application server ** Oracle WebLogic Server (WLS) ** Oracle Application Server (IAS) ** JRockit – a JVM whose functionality has now been merged to OpenJDK **

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** Oracle Service Registry –

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** application-server security **

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* Integration and process-management **

BPEL Process Manager Oracle BPEL Process Manager is a Business Process Execution Language, BPEL engine that is a member of the Oracle Fusion Middleware family of products. It enables enterprises to orchestrate disparate applications and Web services into business proc ...

** Oracle Business Activity Monitoring (Oracle BAM) –

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(BAM) ** business rules ** Business Process Analysis Suite ** Oracle BPM –

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(ODI) – an application using the database for set-based data integration ** Enterprise connectivity (adapters) ** Oracle Enterprise Messaging Service **

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** Oracle Application server B2B ** Oracle Web Services Manager (OWSM) - a security and monitoring product for web services * Application development tools ** Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF) ** JDeveloper ** Oracle SOA Suite ** TopLink – a Java object-relational mapping package ** Oracle Forms services ** Oracle Developer Suite *

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** Oracle Business Intelligence (OBIEE) ** Oracle Crystal Ball – enables stochastic forecasting and simulation using spreadsheet models **

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** Data hubs **

Oracle BI Publisher ''Oracle XML Publisher'' (XMLP) is Oracle Corporation's latest reporting technology. It was originally developed to solve the reporting problems faced by Oracle Applications. Osama Elkady from the Applications Technology Group and Tim Dexter fro ...

** Oracle Reports services *

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** Oracle Enterprise Manager ** Web services manager * User interaction /

** Oracle Beehive – collaboration platform **

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** Workspaces ** Oracle WebCenter **

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** Web content management ** Records management **

Enterprise search Enterprise search is the practice of making content from multiple enterprise-type sources, such as databases and intranets, searchable to a defined audience. "Enterprise search" is used to describe the software of search information within an ente ...

Digital asset management Digital asset management (DAM) and the implementation of its use as a computer application is required in the collection of digital assets to ensure that the owner, and possibly their delegates, can perform operations on the data files. Termin ...

** Email archiving * Identity management ** Oracle Identity Management **

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** Oracle Entitlements Server **

Oracle Identity Manager In computing, Oracle Identity Manager (OIM) enables enterprises to manage the entire user life-cycle across all enterprise resources both within and beyond a firewall. Within Oracle Identity Management it provides a mechanism for implementing th ...

** Oracle Access Manager ** Oracle Adaptive Access Manager ** Oracle Virtual Directory

References

External links

Oracle Fusion Middleware overview

KMWorld article on Oracle acquisition of Stellent

WebCenter Content Users Group - Yahoo! Groups

OTN Forum - WebCenter Content

Fujitsu.com-42 Real Life Examples of Fusion Middleware with Applications

Amazon.com Oracle Fusion Middleware Patterns - Harish Gaur (Author), Markus Zirn (Contributor)

Content.FM
Content Management On Air. Broadcasting news, product updates and general purpose information about ECM and Oracle Universal Content Management {{Oracle Fusion Middleware Service-oriented architecture-related products

Evolution

Assessments

Oracle Fusion Middleware components

See also

References

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