Why Oracle Applications tend to develop on the Web

Due to economic drivers and budget-related issues, many enterprises have been forced to reduce Oracle application development-related projects, or to seek cheaper ways to build applications. But the most important thing is the need to convert applications into Web applications.

The company and third-party developers have been building applications and front-end systems for Oracle databases for decades. Those applications have fixed many key business processes, but they must make frequent changes to meet the needs of new businesses. One of the advantages of this continuous change is that it makes the income of the hired developers very good.

Economic pushing and budget problems force many enterprises to cut their Oracle application development projects, or to seek cheaper ways to build applications. Most importantly, with the need to convert applications into Web applications, you are faced with a challenge: how can you reduce your costs when building and deploying new applications?

Fortunately for Oracle developers, it turns out that the change has a powerful effect. Since Oracle has made innovations to meet the needs of large enterprises, Oracle has a tool to build applications. Among these application development tools, the most famous is those designed for Rapid Application Development (RAD), which are designed to reduce the need to develop new applications.

RAD brings a new set of tools and introduces a new process for Oracle Application Development. This process changes the basic principles and methods for building applications. RAD tools replace tedious manual design and coding processes with automated design and coding. This automated process brings many benefits, from accelerating Application Development to improving the flexibility of change management.

The automated process further accelerates application development and delivery by eliminating the old waterfall development methodology (waterfall development relies heavily on independent individual capabilities.

In addition, the latest RAD tool uses a spiral application development method. Unlike the waterfall method, it emphasizes iteration and brings end users into the development process. Spiral development divides a project into several smaller parts, which can be developed in parallel and prototype can be created in a manageable size.

Then, each part of the solution can be tested independently and packaged together to complete the entire project. Close cooperation between the spiral development methodology and the RAD tool reduces the time required for application development while increasing flexibility.

Over the past few years, the market acumen of RAD tools has increased dramatically, and the biggest contributor to the growth is the change in the way end users deliver applications. Recently, there has been a major shift from desktop applications to Web applications, bringing about a new set of tools and development methodologies. These updated tools allow developers to focus on delivering Web-based (using Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, AJAX) applications.

AJAX is a set of technologies that allow developers to develop Web-based applications and run those applications within a Web browser.

AJAX and Oracle complement each other very well. AJAX supports developers to build Web applications that support unlimited users, while Oracle applications provide data that needs to be stored and supplied for large-user applications. These factors, coupled with the RAD method, form a new methodology that can produce cheaper applications for enterprises and stimulate development of new projects.

These factors help maintain internal application development, or create new opportunities for solution providers to provide customized application development services. For developers, selecting a development kit that integrates RAD capabilities is the first step to migrate applications to Web applications in a cost-effective manner. The appropriate RAD environment should integrate the methods for building Web applications and interacting with Oracle databases. The integrated development environment (IDE) is also a feature.

Coincidentally, combining these features helps narrow the selection scope. We can only select a few (with these features) suites and products. Developers who want to invest in the Web application development world will switch to some products, such as Alpha Five 10th, Quest 10th, and RAD Studio 2010 of Embarcadero, and Oracle Application Express.

Each of these products provides the tools required to create Web applications for Oracle databases.

Oracle application development tends to be Web