This whitepaper examines the architectural options for the Oracle Application Server 10g. The Oracle Application Server can be deployed in a variety of different topologies allowing individual components to be distributed across multiple servers, or to be duplicated in a clustered configuration--providing benefits both in terms of application performance and high availability. Due to this flexibility, administrators are faced with a large number of architectural and deployment decisions for an Oracle Application Server 10g implementation.

This paper will examine a variety of deployment options including two-tier, three-tier and multi-tier topologies. In addition, gain a step-by-step deployment guide for installing Oracle Application Server 10g on the Red Hat Linux operating system with enterprise class hardware.