Oracle Java Cloud Service Reviews

I use the solution in my company to store and analyze data to increase performance and reduce costs. I am not the cloud specialist on my team, but I know just the basics.

The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is flexible in the work, more accessible, and you can make changes in the cloud. It is pretty easy to use. The security part of the tool is less strong. The product's flexibility compensates for the lack of strength in the area of security.

I use the solution for some government-related purposes in Korea.

The product's high price is an area of concern where improvements are required.

I've used the product for backend development, where clients send requests to our system, and we generate responses using Java frameworks. I'm involved in the development process involving problem statements and making the necessary changes per the company's requirements.

It's a screen framework requiring us to write the necessary code. The framework supports auto-configuration. A lot of features are already there. It also incorporates annotations and includes packages that align with Java's new features. This makes it reliable and user-friendly to develop code, back-end engineering, or locate specific information such as addresses. It is relevant and easy.

The most valuable feature is the ability to provision a platform of your choice, such WebLogic, BPM Suite and a lot of other FMW products. It's also easy to deploy a MW platform on the cloud. You don't have to worry about setting up the infrastructure; Oracle manages it. You just have to divert away existing licenses of the technology stack to the deployed platform on JCS.

It's shortened our time to market as we don't have to invest in data centers, computing resources and the underlying infrastructure. The proposition of Java Cloud Service is that, "Hey, here is a hosted platform for you on one of industries best application server i.e. Oracle WebLogic Server". Oracle will provide a platform, the hosting services, and the infrastructure. You just subscribe to a metered or non-metered usage and possibly extend the platform  using your existing Oracle's license on the product you are using. 

For instance, if you are using BPM Suite, you just purchase a BPM Suite license, build an Oracle BPM platform on top of JCS, and deploy your applications on top of it. Oracle will support the JCS infrastructure and you still get the ability to extend it to suite your needs.

You can scale up and scale down, have a high available infrastructure  and even do disaster recovery if you have Java Cloud Services deployed at two different availability zones. It's a very low-cost option for a business to start with. That's one of the best business reasons to move into JCS.

All custom web applications are developed as Enterprise Applications deployed to Oracle Cloud. I have worked with Java/JEE technologies for more than 18 years. Moving to Cloud has addressed a lot of major concerns related to performance, security, deployments, support.

We have adopted TOGAF architecture framework for more than five years, as agile teams have been working with continuous deployments and JIRA as our ALM tool. Moving to Oracle Cloud has addressed some of our major concerns with having to manage the infrastructure, which needs better scalability, integrated security, and better database access. Moving away from maintenance and support of most infrastructure, and to some extend the applications.

Demoing. Two CPUs, 16GB memory.

Demoing is always an expensive process, from procurement of hardware to installation of software. Now, it is easier, cheaper, and more elastic.

The most valuable feature is that it is cloud-based. You don't have to acquire the software, install it on you machine or go through the trouble of procuring the hardware. You would then have to install and maintain everything and apply patches. With Oracle Java Cloud Service, in a few clicks, you can set up an entire WebLogic server in the AWS cloud services and the storage cloud services. It's really awesome. All this comes with a free subscription when you subscribe to Java Cloud Services. You also get the Developer Cloud Service at no cost.

I find this is pretty mature product. Mature in the sense that I’m getting the same Java in the cloud that I get with a locally installed version. So far, the only issue I have is with the storage cloud. The user needs to use the external REST API to set up the storage cloud servers. A developer that knows the REST API can easily do this. Other options, like the Java Cloud Service or Database Cloud Service, do have a UI option from the web application itself, where you can go and create an instance.

The most valuable feature of the product is being able to test on multiple platforms for Oracle, for VMware, and so on.

I think there should be improvement with the speed and it should offer a more diverse selection of the suites that I can use.