Oracle [NASDAQ:ORCL] will announce today that the Oracle Developer/2000 Web Cartridge has attained 100% Pure Java certification.

"This will show that Oracle has emerged as a tools vendor from being just another player to leading the market to the Web," asserted Steve Erhlich, senior director of product marketing for Oracle tools.

As a result of the certification, applications deployed on application servers with the use of Developer/2000 Web Cartridge will run "consistently and with integrity" on all Java-compliant desktop platforms, according to Ehrlich.

Prior to the implementation of the 100% Pure Java specification, access to database applications in multi-vendor client environments has often been fraught with compatibility issues.

"And since almost all enterprises are multi-vendor environments, virtually all enterprises will benefit," the product marketing director contended.

Oracle uses cartridges as plug-ins within all three levels of its NCA (Network Computing Architecture): database server; applications server; and client.

The thin client to the Oracle Developer/2000 Web Cartridge is a Java applet that will be downloadable from the application server to any Java-compliant client platform for direct communication with the Developer/2000 Web Cartridge, Ehrlich noted.

Source: Newsbytes