Oracle Application Server 10g Release 2 (10.1.2) is an integrated, standards-based application platform suite that allows organizations of all sizes to respond better to changing business requirements.

The Oracle Application Server application platform suite can improve your organization's ability to predict and respond to market dynamics, enhance productivity, and simplify your information technology environment, all while allowing you to use your existing investments to their full potential. Oracle Application Server 10g Release 2 (10.1.2) achieves these goals through:

• Service-Oriented Computing: Oracle Application Server uses a service-oriented computing architecture to facilitate the development of enterprise applications as business services, which enables you to build a flexible enterprise application infrastructure.

• Grid Computing: The Oracle Application Server architecture coordinates the use of large numbers of low cost, modular servers and storage to act as one large computer to run your enterprise applications. This allows you to start small, minimize unused resources, and add processing or storage capacity as you need it.

Quick Tour
The Quick Tour introduces the features and functionality of Oracle Application Server.

Quick Administration Guide
The Quick Administration Guide is a fast and easy-to-use reference for the most common application server administration tasks.

You can find the Quick Tour and the Quick Administration Guide in the Oracle Application Server documentation library, which is on a separate CD-ROM in the Oracle Application Server CD pack. You can also access the Quick Tour from at Oracle Technology Network.