Behaviour JRE1.6 with Forms services compare to Jinitiator

Hi,
I want to optimize oracle forms traffic on the Wan through Wan optimization appliances.
The customer OracleAS 10G R2.
The constraint is that he wants to use JRE1.6 with http or https communication modes.
I know that services forms exchanges are encrypted in RC4-40bits which isn't a problem
for the wan accelerator equipments.
But i have heard that JRE doesn't behave like Jinitiator because it maintains a session
between the Java Machine and the Oracle listener which prevents the optimization
to work.
So i would like to know if there is a real difference between Jinitiator and JRE1.6
in the exchanges between Client and Server.
Best regards.
Andre

This seems to be a very specific question regarding the Application Server, you would probably increase your chances to get a response if you post the question in Application Server forum.
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