Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) is the most comprehensive suite of integrated, global business applications that provides:
The most complete, integrated business intelligence portfolio
The most adaptable global business platform
The most customer-focused applications strategy
It consists of many modules or products, supporting a variety of business functions. For example, some of the product families are: financials, supply chain, human resource management, manufacturing, projects, CRM, and incentive compensations. Oracle EBS is implemented in a three-tier architecture as illustrated in the following diagram:
These three tiers are as follows.
Client tier: This tier comprises of web browsers such as Internet Explorer 7 and 8, Firefox 3.5, and Safari 3. Jinitiator is de-supported as of the end of July 2009; instead, native Sun J2SE 1.5 (5.0) and 1.6 (6.0) is supported moving from Jinitiator to native Sun Java Plugin.
Application tier: This middle tier comprises of a web server...