BEA WebLogic

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BEA WebLogic is a J2EE application server and also an HTTP web server by BEA Systems of San Jose, California, for Unix, Linux, Microsoft Windows, and other platforms. WebLogic supports Oracle, DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, and other JDBC-compliant databases. WebLogic Server supports WS-Security and is compliant with J2EE 1.3.

BEA WebLogic Server is part of the BEA WebLogic Platform™. The other parts of WebLogic Platform are:

a) Portal, which includes Commerce Server and Personalization Server (which is built on a BEA-produced Rete rules engine),

b) WebLogic Integration,

c) WebLogic Workshop, an IDE for Java, and

d) JRockit, a JVM for Intel CPUs.

WebLogic Server includes .NET interoperability and supports the following native integration capabilities:

Native enterprise-grade JMS messaging
J2EE Connector Architecture
WebLogic/Tuxedo Connector
COM+ Connectivity
CORBA connectivity
IBM WebSphere MQ connectivity

BEA WebLogic Server Process Edition also includes Business Process Management and Data Mapping functionality.

WebLogic supports security policies managed by Security Administrators. The BEA WebLogic Server Security Model includes:

Separate application business logic from security code
Complete scope of security coverage for all J2EE and non-J2EE components

1 Versions
2 Supported open standards
3 WebLogic History
4 See also
5 External links

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Versions

9.0 Code name Diablo, shipped in the latter part of 2005

8.1 Shipped Summer 2003, announced March 2003, discussed Jan 2003. However still by Summer 2004 not all enterprise customers were comfortable with its stability. Alfred Chuang, CEO of BEA Systems told analysts in August 2004 that his priorities included hardening WebLogic 8.1 to improve its scalability and reliability. There has been considerable debate around why BEA picked the number 8.1, thereby skipping 8.0. Developers suggested that 8.1 should have been 7.1 or perhaps 7.0.1. The website http://www.theserverside.com/ hosts WebLogic developer debates on these issues.

7.0 Previous version to 8.1. There was no 8.0 release. Released Summer 2002 only one year before 8.1, even though most vendors have an 18 month product lifecycle between major releases. After the release of 8.1, BEA encouraged its users on 6.1 or earlier to skip 7.0 and move directly to the freshly released 8.1. [1] (Often enterprise users wish to stay one release back from the current one in order to achieve greater reliability.)

6.1 No longer supported on November 2006

6.0 No longer supported (April 2003)

5.1 Previous version to 6.0

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Supported open standards

J2EE 1.3 & 1.4
JAAS
SNMP
XSLT & XQuery
ebXML
BPEL & BPEL-J
Native support for:

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WebLogic History

WebLogic, Inc., was founded by Paul Ambrose, Bob Pasker, Laurie Pitman, and Carl Resnikoff, in September, 1995.

Up until then, Paul and Carl had been developing (pre-JDBC) Oracle, Sybase, and Microsoft SQL Server database drivers for Java under the name dbKona, as well as a "three tier" server to permit applets to connect to these databases. An old dbKona/An T3 Usenet posting. This was the WebLogic 1.48 server, and was called T3Server (a bastardization of 3-Tier Server).

Concurrently, Laurie and Bob had been working on network management tools in Java. Bob had written a SNMP stack in Java and a W32 native method for ICMP ping, while Laurie worked on applets to display the management data.

One of the hidden features of the 1.48 server version was the ability to extend it by modifying a dispatcher and adding a handler for different types of messages. Bob talked Paul into sending him the source code for the server, and Bob extended it so that Applets could make SNMP and PING requests on the network, and display the results.

At that point, the founders threw their hats into the ring together and they pursued what was eventually to be called the Application Server.

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Version 2

On 13-June-1996, Sun released a spec for JDBC. WebLogic had been working with Sun on the spec, converted all the dbKona database drivers to the JDBC API, and jdbcKona was announced on 20-Jan-1996. The dbKona APIs were retooled to sit on top of JDBC.

The Version 2 T3Server included a rewritten core, including a new dispatcher, new Applet/Server communications (the t3:// protocol), and most importantly, dynamic code loading. Continuing with its naming scheme, the 2.x server provided eventKona/T3 and remoteKona/T3.

Undocumented in the 2.0.9 release was a Java Servlet engine. The servlet engine was used for administration , and it wasn't until 2.2 that customers could add their own servlets.

With Version 2.4, WebLogic introduced RMI/T3, the first commercial implementation of RMI, and Bean/T3, a distributed version of JavaBeans.

Version 2.0.x and 2.1.x Release Notes

Version 2.2 Release Notes

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