Oracle WebLogic Server !!!

If you are following the news BEA is now Oracle and so Oracle WebLogic Server. Go the Oracle website and click on the Application Server area, you will find out that WebLog ic found its spot there. Click to go there - http://www.oracle.com/appserver/index.html.

One of the key information you find on the above website is a 90 minute web-cast that explains Oracle's Middleware Strategy or go directly here - http://www.oracle.com/webapps/events/EventsDetail.jsp?p_eventId=81641. Oracle President, Charles Phillip and SVP, Thomas Kurian talks about the companies strategy in general and the future of Fusion Middleware products and BEA products. If you are interested in BEA products OR in Oracle middleware products this presentation will be worth you time.

I will soon come up more more information about some exciting features of WebLogic Server 10.3.

WebLogic Server 10.3 Tech Preview

I am so excited about the new features of WebLogic Server 10.3 which is in Tech Preview right now. So I thought I would share some of the cool features coming...

• In development Admin Console is deployed on demand the very first time someone access it. This will save memory and will speed up the development servers startup.
• Admin Console is now internally tuned for better response time.
• Light Weight Installer- Fine grained installer to reduce the footprint of the installation.

• Light Weight Runtime - If you are not using EJB, JMS, JCA you can disable those services to start WLS in a light weight mode.
• On Demand Internal Application Deployment - UDDI Explorer, Console, WS Test Client and their runtime can be be deployed on demand. This will also reduce the server's footprint when you are not using them.
• WLS 10.3 is shipping with JDK 6.
• Web 2.0 is now supported for building rich internet applications.
• Support for C# client with JMS will let .NET applications directly access JMS in WLS 10.3

and much more...

See http://e-docs.bea.com/wls/essex/TechPreview/pdf/feature_overview.pdf for more info.

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