Oracle offers web 2.0 integration for portal users

Since web 2.0, especially AJAX is getting more and more popular, Oracle has no choice but to offer web 2.0 technology to be integrated for its enterprise portal products. Oracle needs to catch-up!

The Oracle Web Center Suite, a middleware module that extends JSF (Java Server Faces) and NetBeans with support for portlets with a client based on AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript And XML). The software is designed to let Oracle customers build in Web 2.0 tools such as blogs, wikis and RSS feeds into company intranets, internal dashboards and other portals.

Futhermore, Web Center Suite will allow enterprise IT organizations to create “mashup” applications that combine content from databases and other repositories such as their PeopleSoft, JD Edwards or Siebel systems. Business users will be able to access this data through MS Office applications such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint. They will be able to do the same thing with personal digital assistants or voice-over-IP clients etc.