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1. Architecture Overview
Oracle Transportation Management is built for interactive environments that leverage the Internet as
an information backbone to capture reference data such as updates to carriers, carrier rates, shipping
schedules, locations, ports, and other logistics sources. The underlying architecture is a unique multienterprise data model with n-tier web and application servers, partitioned database server, native XML
language, extensible style sheets, advanced data security, and optimal caching.
Oracle Transportation Management is highly distributed and collaborative. It is written in Java and
uses Enterprise Java Beans, XML, HTML, and XSL technologies. The design is based on a thin HTML
client/fat application architecture so that applications are easily deployable and accessible by multiple
enterprises. It supports comprehensive integration via XML APIs to all of the application logic.
Server Overview
The following illustration describes the overall architecture of the Oracle Transportation Management
environment.
Each server is designed to perform specific functions that are briefly described in the following
sections. From a user’s perspective, all that you need to use to access Oracle Transportation
Management is a standard Web browser such as Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox.
Web Server
The Web server controls the Oracle Transportation Management user interface and communicates with
the Application server to initiate the appropriate application logic. The Oracle Transportation
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