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Choose the best of today’s tools to build next-generation Oracle Database applications.
BY DAVID A. KELLY
I-HUA CHEN
Trends in application development have come and gone over the years. Remember when client/server was new? Rich, thick-client applications
ran on UNIX-based workstations and later on PCs. Remember the rise of
the thin client? A Web browser on a PC became the delivery method for
portable—across different desktops—thin-client applications. The next
platforms for application delivery are here, and users are demanding a rich
and portable experience on these rapidly evolving devices.