Oracle B2B 11g comes with the redesigned B2B user interface (or, as Oracle calls it, the B2B interface). It has a lot of new cool features for administrators, remote trading partners, developers, and business analysts.
The Oracle B2B user interface is a web application that is deployed as a standalone war file on the same managed server as the SOA Service Infrastructure. Oracle B2B UI application is stateful, and stores information in the HTTP Session.
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The web application is stateful when the server makes sure that the same instance is being used for all requests from a given client. This also means that, while an instance is serving a client, the server should not use the same instance for other client requests. One important ramification of statefulness is that the server will maintain a separate instance for each client. Oracle B2B interface uses session beans to maintain state on behalf of a user.
Understanding of these principles is helpful for Chapter...