BEA WebLogic

BEA WebLogic is a J2EE application server and also an HTTP web server by BEA Systems of San Jose, California, for Unix, Linux, Solaris, 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
• Java Connector Architecture
• WebLogic/Tuxedo Connector
• COM+ Connectivity
• CORBA connectivity
• IBM WebSphere MQ connectivity

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
  

  Versions

• 9.0 Code name Diablo, due to ship by June 2005, discussed Summer 2004
  

• 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 [1] 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. See advice from BEA. (Often enterprise users wish to stay one release back from the current one in order to achieve greater reliability.)

• 6.1 No longer supported (Summer 2004)

• 5.1 Previous version to 6.1
  

  Supported open standards

• J2EE 1.3
• JAAS
• SNMP
• XSLT & XQuery
• ebXML
• BPEL & BPEL-J
• Native support for:
• *SOAP
• *WSDL
• *UDDI
• *WS-Security
• *WSRP

  See also

• Matrix of Application Servers

  External link

• BEA Systems Inc.
• Superior Connectors fro ERP Connectivity