Oracle8i Lite is a mobile computing platform that provides a small footprint database (Oracle Lite DBMS), tools for developing mobile web applications (Web-to-go), and capabilities for synchronizing data between mobile devices and central databases (iConnect). It offers a complete solution for building, deploying, and managing mobile applications across various devices in a way that is powerful, flexible, easy to manage and low cost.

1. Oracle8i Lite
Oracle8i Lite, the Internet platform for mobile computing, is the most complete and
comprehensive platform for developing, deploying, and managing mobile applications.
Oracle8i Lite offers three key features: Oracle Lite DBMS, Web-to-go, and iConnect.
Oracle Lite DBMS is a small footprint Java-enabled DBMS built from the ground up for
laptops, handheld computers, PDAs, and information appliances. Web-to-go is the
extension of the Oracle Internet platform that facilitates the development, deployment,
and management of mobile web applications. iConnect offers a flexible architecture that
enables reliable and scaleable synchronization of data and applications between
Oracle8i Lite and central database servers.
Competitive Business Landscape
Today’s companies must survive in a highly competitive business landscape.
Organizations are now focusing on new business processes that enhance
customer service, product quality, and overall efficiency. One key area of focus
is the “extended enterprise”, field representatives who are usually mobile.
Whether providing information to the field faster, or enabling salespersons to
provide better service to customers, applications for the extended enterprise can
give a company the edge it needs to outperform the competition. To execute
these applications effectively, organizations need a platform that is powerful,
flexible, easy to manage, and low in cost.
Challenges To Implementation
To reap the rewards of automating the extended enterprise, one must overcome
the technical challenges that can stand in the way. Applications must not only
be powerful, but also have low storage requirements. One must choose a
flexible platform, or risk being limited in future growth. Applications must be
easy to deploy and manage, or labor costs will significantly reduce return on
investment. To overcome these hurdles and guarantee success, one needs to
choose a powerful, flexible, and lightweight development platform as the
foundation for distributed applications.
The Versatile Solution
The solution for extending the enterprise to the mobile platforms is Oracle8i
Lite, the Internet platform for mobile computing, that provides the power,
flexibility, and manageability needed at the center of a distributed development

2. strategy. Because of its enhanced compatibility with Oracle8i , Oracle8i Lite
has the versatility that many larger databases cannot provide. All this power and
versatility is delivered in an extremely small package at a very low price.
By using Oracle8i Lite for a distributed enterprise strategy there are many
benefits:
· Mobile Extension of Oracle8i - Oracle8i Lite is the mobile extension for
the Oracle8i platform. Oracle8i Lite offers complete Java Support which is
100% compatible with Oracle8i, the persistent messaging API (Advanced
Queuing) of Oracle8i, and synchronization facilities between a variety of
information appliances and handheld devices with the Oracle8i database
server.
· Complete and Comprehensive Platform for End-to-End solution -
Oracle is the only company to offer a complete and comprehensive platform
for an end-to-end solution. Oracle offers a comprehensive development,
deployment, and management platform for mobile applications on
handhelds, to embedded applications on desktops to enterprise applications.
· Centralized Server-Side Deployment and System Management -
Applications developed using Oracle8i Lite can be deployed and managed
from a central Oracle Server. Oracle is the only company to offer such a
low-cost centralized deployment and management solution.
Oracle Lite DBMS
Oracle Lite DBMS is a small footprint (50KB - 750KB), Java enabled database
designed from ground up for laptops, handheld computers, PDAs and
information appliances. It supports industry standard ODBC, JDBC, SQLJ, and
Java Stored Procedures and Triggers. It provides a streaming fast “C” interface,
OKAPI, to its object kernel. It also supports Java Access Classes, JAC, a fast
and easy way to make Java Objects persistent.
iConnect
iConnect offers a flexible architecture that enables reliable and scaleable
synchronization of data and applications between Oracle8i Lite and central
Oracle database servers. It supports various network protocols for
synchronization: NET8, HTTP, wireless, and any file transfer protocol. iConnect
is the only mobile synchronization engine that offers a persistent messaging
feature with AQ Lite.
Web-to-go
Web-to-go extends the Oracle Internet Platform to facilitate the development,
deployment, and management of mobile web applications. This is the only
solution for seamlessly mobilizing a web application. No installation on the
client is required, only a browser is required. This is the lowest Total Cost of
Ownership solution for mobile computing today.

3. Key Features
Oracle Lite Core Database New Features
n Small footprint (50KB - 750KB)
n Lightweight and Low Cost
n Full row-level locking
concurrency support
n Industry Standard ODBC Support
n Self-tuning with automatic
statistics gathering for efficient
query execution
n SQL-92 Compliant
Complete Java Functionality
n Standards Compliant JDBC
n Standards Compliant SQLJ
n Java Stored Procedures and
Triggers
n Seamless persistent Java
n Java syntax and semantics
compatibility with Oracle JServer
n Java Servlet support
iConnect
n Supports Oracle Server snapshot
replication
n Flexible data subsetting with sub-queries
n Multiple network protocol
support: Net8, HTTP, wireless, or
any file transfer protocol
n Oracle8i Lite Consolidator: low
overhead state-based data
synchronization for PDA devices
n AQ Lite: messaging API with
transactional properties
n OMA Support: synchronization
optimized for low-bandwidth,
high latency networks with data
encryption and compression
Web-to-go
n Broad Application support:
supports any application written
in Java/HTML
n Open Web Development
Environment
n Centralized, wizard-based
Software Deployment
n Easy-to-use, customizable Mobile
Workspace
n Automatic Client Setup
n Server-side System Management
n Enterprise Scaleability,
Performance and Reliability
Supported Platforms
n Windows 95, 98, NT, CE
n EPOC32 Palm Computing
platform
Development tools
n Supports any tool using JDBC,
ODBC, or SQLJ including
Oracle’s JDeveloper, JBuilder,
Visual Café, Visual Basic,
Delphi, etc.
n Oracle Lite Designer, Oracle Lite
Navigator, SQL*Plus
n Web-to-go SDK is a self-contained
development and
debugging environment tailored
for mobile web applications
Deployment tools
n Deployment wizard
n Publish wizard for uploading web
applications to the Web-to-go
Repository
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