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.

The Oracle Application Server documentation set consists of the documentation library and platform-specific documentation.

• The Oracle Application Server 10g Release 2 (10.1.2) documentation library contains administration, configuration, and development documentation. The documentation library is on its own CD-ROM in the Oracle Application Server CD pack.
  
  
• The Oracle Application Server 10g Release 2 (10.1.2) platform-specific documentation includes installation and upgrade documentation and release notes. The platform-specific documentation is on the Oracle Application Server Disk 1 CD-ROM in the Oracle Application Server CD pack.

The Oracle Application Server documentation is also available at Oracle Technology Network.