Oracle Envisions Mobile Driving Multitier Cloud Architectures

Grazed from ProgrammableWeb. Author: Michael Vizard.

Thanks to the proliferation of REST APIs across the enterprise and the adoption of JavaScript on both the client and server sides of applications, Oracle envisions the emergence of multiple tiers of cloud computing services across the enterprise in 2015. Suhas Uliyar, vice president of mobile strategy for Oracle, says that while Java is still preferred for integrating back-end services, various forms of JavaScript are emerging as the preferred mechanism for building both business-to-consumer and business-to-employee applications that need to run on a variety of mobile computing devices.

The challenge is finding a way to make it possible to reuse JavaScript code across multiple applications. To address that issue, the Oracle Mobile Application Framework enables developers to build JavaScript applications on top of a Java Virtual Machine. That JVM then allows the code to be shared between application development projects, says Uliyar…

On the server side, Oracle is building out an Oracle Mobile Cloud Service that provides a server-side implementation of JavaScript through which developers can access back-end services using REST APIs. Unlike other cloud services, Uliyar says Oracle Mobile Cloud Service allows developers to shape REST APIs and JSON data formats to optimize the performance of mobile applications. Without that capability, developers wind up calling a set of generic REST APIs that add a lot of unnecessary overhead in the form of various properties to their applications, says Uliyar…

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