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Helping Web Developers to Build Ideal Sites

The best website is one that offers user friendly services for its clients. To develop such a site many online businesses find that using modern applications alongside older, better known, software, allows each site visitor to feel at ease. Building such as site is no easy task, but with new website development applications, it is certainly getting simpler to do. Oracle today unveiled SOA Suite to help customers integrate legacy and modern applications, cobbled together from homegrown software and infrastructure products acquired through company purchases.

The service-oriented architecture suite for distributed computing is designed to let customers blend new and old software so they don`t have to "rip and replace" existing infrastructure. Oracle said in a statement the suite should help enterprises meet their customers` requirements for speedy information retrieval and exchange and for conducting time-sensitive transactions. Retrieving and exchanging information is crucial at a time when regulatory compliance rules such as Sarbanes-Oxley and HIPAA call for information to be saved unaltered and presented in its original form.

The suite includes a number of "engines" for Web services, BPEL processes, business rules, management and message exchange. The Oracle Enterprise Service Bus connects existing IT systems and business partners as services. And Oracle Business Activity Monitoring offers insight into business operations in real time. The package also includes Oracle JDeveloper 10g, an integrated development environment for creating and composing applications. Customers may buy the whole suite or mix and match individual products, with licensing fees varying depending on installation size.