Oracle JVM has all the features you must build a new generation of enterprise-wide applications at a low cost. The most important feature is the support for stored procedures. Using stored procedures, you can implement business logic at the server level, thereby improving application performance, scalability, and security.

This chapter contains the following sections:

• Stored Procedures and Run-Time Contexts

• Advantages of Stored Procedures

• Running Java Stored Procedures

• Debugging Java Stored Procedures