Oracle9iAS Release 2 is fully compliant with major Internet standards. These include J2EE 1.3, SOAP, WSDL, UDDI, WebDAV, LDAP v3, SSL v3, and XML.

Oracle HTTP Server includes the following new features and enhancements:

• Based on Apache 1.3.22
  
• Integration with OC4J and Oracle9iAS Single Sign-On
  
• Managed through OEM
  
• Support for other web servers (including Netscape iPlanet and Microsoft IIS) through proxy plug-ins
  
• Enhanced high availability features
  
• Enhanced diagnostic and troubleshooting facilities
  
• Enhanced logging features

Oracle9iAS Containers for J2EE (OC4J) includes the following new features and enhancements:

• J2EE 1.3 certified
• Create Web pages and dynamic content with JSP 1.2 and Servlet 2.3
• Create business logic with EJB 2.0 using container-managed-relationships, EJB QL, and MessageDriven beans
• Access databases and existing systems with JDBC 2.0 Extension, JMS 1.0, JTA 1.0, and Connector 1.0
• Support for authentication and authorization with JAAS 1.0
• Standards based XML support with JAXP 1.0
  
• Tight integration with Oracle Advanced Queuing for messaging services
  
• High availability through servlet and EJB clustering
  
• Managed through OEM
• Increased application performance through Java Object Cache
  
• Integration with Oracle9i JDeveloper
• Integration with Oracle9iAS Single Sign-On

Oracle9iAS Web Services includes the following new features and enhancements:

• J2EE and PL/SQL application support
• Document Style Web Services including support for asynchronous services through JMS
  
• WSDL, UDDI, and SOAP support
  
• EAR file deployment with automatic generation of Web Services endpoint home page
• Automatic generation of test pages for easy testing of Web Services from a browser during development
• Stream processing for XML and HTML streams
• JSP tag library for creating JSP Web Services clients based on a WSDL file
• Support for custom serializers/deserializers allowing use of non simple Java types
  
• Managed through OEM
  
• Integration with Oracle9i JDeveloper

Oracle9i Business Components for Java (BC4J) includes the following new features and enhancements:

• Oracle9i database support
  
• Web Services support