Next-Generation Middleware Architecture

Oracle SOA Service Oriented Architecture News : Next-Generation Middleware Architecture

Fusion Middleware architecture for flexible, standards-based applications
During his Wednesday keynote at the JavaOne conference, Oracle Senior Vice President Thomas Kurian unveiled the next-generation architecture for Oracle Fusion Middleware—the world's fastest growing family of middleware products. This industry's first middleware architecture to support Grid computing, service-oriented architecture (SOA) and event-driven architecture (EDA) at "the core" delivers unprecedented flexibility, performance and scalability.
In addition, Oracle announced an enhanced Java application server and tools as well as a new development kit for Spring.

Key innovations include:

Extreme processing and performance. In-memory data grid technology, from Oracle's recent acquisition of Tangosol, enables extreme transactions processing and scalability.
SCA-based service infrastructure. A new service infrastructure, based on the service component architecture (SCA) standard, will offer a new composite application development framework with built-in policy enforcement points and optimized intra-component messaging.
Complex Event Processing (CEP) for EDA. CEP will support high-volume, programmatic analysis of complex event patterns derived from multiple, independent event sources.
Enhanced Java Application Server and Tools. Instrumental in defining key Java standards since its inception, Oracle realized that simplifying development with EJB 3.0 and JavaServer Faces (JSF) 1.2 is vital to the adoption of the next-generation Java Platform, Java EE 5.

Also announced were free technology previews of Oracle's new standards-based tools, including the Java EE 5 compatible Oracle Application Server (OC4J) 11g, Oracle JDeveloper 11g and Application Development Framework (ADF).

New Development Kit for Spring.
Because of its highly flexible, layered architecture, the popularity of Spring's open source continues to grow. To meet the requirements of developers using Oracle Java products in conjunction with Spring, Oracle is delivering a new development kit for Spring, including productivity tools, pre-packaged sample applications and how-to-guides.

Source: http://www.oracle.com/features/hp/next-generation-fusion-middleware.html