I was reading through some Oracle technical docs last night.
I encountered a statement that essentially said that Servlet
support will be added to a future release of the Oracle 8i
database and to OAS 4.1. Does anyone know more about this?
I am curious how other developers see Oracle 8i. Oracle is
adding web/application/transaction server functionality to the
database itself. Oracle 8i already supports EJB and CORBA in
the database server using Oracle's database-optimized server
Java VM. I haven't used this functionality myself, but I am
looking forward to trying it out.
My guess is that eliminating the network connectivity between
the JDBC driver and the database server will significantly
improve performance. (The Oracle 8i server side Java VM has
a specialized JDBC driver that operates in the same memory
space as the database... enabling it to access db pages
directly.) But I am not sure how using the database as an
application server (eg, servlets, ejb, http, etc.) will affect
scalability. Normally, scalability is achieved by adding
application server nodes and load-balancing across them.
But if the database is acting as an application server, all
you can do is add processors.
Thoughts?
-eric
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