A new release of Oracle Web Services Manager also accompanies the application server. Dubbed release 10g release 10.1.3, it features additional pre-built service policies and increases in monitoring and analytic capabilities.

The application server is priced at US$30,000 per CPU for the enterprise-level edition.

Oracle also is announcing the first enhancements to the COREid Federation product acquired when the company purchased Oblix earlier in 2005. Part of the Oracle Identity Management platform, which can be used for securing the application server, COREid now offers seamless single sign-on and identity-sharing across business partners via a multiprotocol gateway that supports standards such as Liberty, Oracle said.

COREid Provisioning will be integrated with Oracle Web Services Manager and Oracle BPEL Process Manager for security in an SOA-based provisioning architecture.