If you are an active WebLogic practitioner then it is likely that you will have either already come across the term Cloud Application Foundation (CAF) or will do sometime soon. If you already understand what CAF is then congratulations - and you can skip this article! For the rest of us I thought I would peel back some of the marketing buzzwords and look at what CAF offers.
CAF is an Oracle product marketing term used to describe a sub-set of its middleware products that are frequently used as the basis for developing/deploying (and managing) applications, often providing software as a service (SaaS) - (read highly scalable) hence the "Cloud" moniker
The Cloud Application Foundation components are as follows (accurate at time of writing):
- Application Server
- Oracle WebLogic Server
- Oracle Tuxedo
- Oracle Glassfish Server
- Oracle Application Server
- Data Grid
- Oracle Coherence
- Management
- Oracle Enterprise Management
- Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder (OVAB)
- The Cloud Application Framework, hosted on the Oracle site.
- The Cloud Application Framework Blog, hosted on Oracle Blogs Site
