CHAPTER 21Looking to the Future with WebCenter and Fusion Applications

The birth of Oracle WebCenter can be traced to a number of different driving factors, such as the evolution of browsers and web UI technologies, the development of standards in the Java and web services world, the emergence of visual declarative IDEs, and Web 2.0 trends in the consumer web. One particularly significant factor contributed to the architecting and building of the brand-new portal product and framework: Oracle WebCenter. After acquiring many of the enterprise application vendors in the marketplace (PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, and Siebel), Oracle realized that a traditional integrated application development and middleware technology stack didn’t cut it anymore, and ...

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