Oracle WebServer Concepts

This section offers a conceptual overview of the Oracle WebServer. It is intended to give you a context for the more specific task-oriented information that follows. The subsequent sections of this book are specifically targeted at those who manage Oracle WebServer sites (WebServer Administrators) and those who write application programs for them (application developers). This section covers:

• Overview.
• The Web Listener. This is the portion of the WebServer that interfaces to the local network or the World Wide Web.
• The Secure Sockets Layer. Introduction to SSL public key encryption.
• The Web Server Manager. The set of Web pages you can use to perform most WebServer administration.
• The CGI Interface. The standard Web mechanism for executing applications on a Web server.
• The Web Request Broker (WRB). The core of the WebServer. An asynchronous request broker with an open API that Oracle WebServer uses to execute applications on the server.
• The PL/SQL Agent. The program the Oracle WebServer uses to execute procedures written in PL/SQL, Oracle's application development language, on the Oracle7 Server.
• Java. A new language for developing distributed network applications. Oracle WebServer enables you to execute Java either on the WebServer itself or on the client's browser.
• LiveHTML. A way to embed dynamic content in Web pages. This content can be either other Web pages or the output of scripts run by the Operating System. LiveHTML is an Oracle extension of the NCSA standard Server Side Includes functionality.

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