Other technologies in the book
To be able to develop the application throughout this book, other products and technologies will be used. A few of them are discussed in the following sections.
Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse
Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse (OEPE) is a set of plugins for the Eclipse IDE that enables Java EE application development and leverages the toolset of Oracle specific technologies for Oracle Fusion Middleware.
The following is a list of key features that OEPE supports:
Oracle WebLogic Server (including WLST, SCA, and shared libraries)
Oracle Cloud
Oracle Database
Object Relational Mapping (ORM)
Spring 3.2 integration
Oracle Coherence
Oracle Coherence
Coherence provides a replicated and distributed data management and caching services, on top of a peer-to-peer clustering protocol, shared across multiple servers but with very high throughput, low response times, and predictable scalability.
In this book we're going to show examples of Coherence*Web, which is an HTTP session management module dedicated to managing the session state in clustered environments. This module integrates with WebLogic Server and provides a pluggable mechanism to scale up Java EE applications, having the benefit of not requiring any application instrumentation or changes to be activated.
PrimeFaces
PrimeFaces is a popular, free, and open source JSF component suite that provides several extensions and has a rich set of components, including an HTML editor and animated charts. It's very lightweight (only one jar, less than 2 MB) with no required dependencies other than JSF itself, making it a breeze to use and create Java EE web user interfaces.
MySQL
Since the very early years of the Web, MySQL empowers millions of websites and systems worldwide, being considered the world's most used open source database. It is a relational database system and supports many high profile products such as Wikipedia, Google, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube.
MySQL offers a huge and rich set of features, but one of the most important features is the cross-platform support. So you can run the same product on Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, or even Apple's OS X.
