Thursday, April 26 stood at the premises of BEA Systems, a presentation of the new features of BEA WebLogic version 10 range.
The first product was the central brick on which all offers Weblogic: the application server WebLogic Server version 10. The presentation began with a reminder of the contributions of previous versions:
WebLogic Server 9.0:
- Support for Java EE 4 (Enterprise Web Services 1.1, JMS 1.1, JMX 1.2, JDBC 3.0, Connector Architecture 1.5, EJB 2.1, ...)
- Support deployment plans (JSR-88)
Deployment plans to configure an application without modifying the contents of its archives. Thus, it is now possible to deliver an application accompanied by several configurations: one for the test cell and another for production. This feature has long existed on IBM WebSphere.
- Appearance of WebLogic Diagnostic Service
This monitoring tool and diagnostic captures, classically, the metric on a Weblogic domain through a collection of MBeans, but it also collects information on applications running through the instrumentation phase. This feature is based on AspectJ. Enabling Wlds generates an additional cost of 3 to 5% of CPU usage, allowing for production use. This very interesting feature of WLS can not do without specialized tools in optimizing and tuning of application.
WebLogic Server 9.5:
- Added ability to deploy side-by-side '
In order to achieve service downtime virtually zero, WLS 9.5 can deploy both versions of the same application on a domain and switch version automatically. Two upgrade procedures are available. The new version of the application is activated:
- when no user session is active (by default, the lifetime of sessions is 30 minutes)
- when no user session is active or when the maximum waiting time, specified by the administrator, is reached.
WebLogic Server 10.0:
- Support for Java EE 5 (Servlet 2.5, JSP 2.1, JSF 1.2, JSTL 1.2, EJB 3.0, JPA, Annotations, ...)
- Support for shared libraries
In addition to the standard API, BEA support now widely used frameworks (Struts 1.1 and 1.2, 1.0 beehive, ...). This means:
- a case can be opened with the support of BEA in case of malfunction.
- it is possible to deploy these components on an area of the WL then be referenced by several applications.
- Support for failover connections optimized for Oracle 10g.
- Extending WebLogic Diagnostic Service
- Adding unicast communications within the clusters.
- Added the ability to record transactions on the portal administration to be able to play again with WLST (WebLogic Scripting Tool).
The future major development of the platform will WebLogic WebLogic Virtual Edition:
- May 2007: Availability of WebLogic Virtual Edition based on VMware ESX Server.
- June 2007: TechTalk on virtualization as BEA
- 2007Q3: Availability of WebLogic Virtual Edition running on XenSource!
The presentation prousuivi with BEA WebLogic Portal 10. WLP is presented as a portal with versatile integration capabilities and collaboration. The word "Plumtree" was not pronounced by the representatives of BEA. WLP incorporates Web2.0 technologies including a presentation framework for the updating of pages and portlets dynamically via AJAX and Adrenaline for applications 'Mash-Up' ...
The TechTalk ended with the presentation of BEA WebLogic Workshop 10. The new version of Workshop is built on Eclipse 3.2. It supports Apache Beehive, Java Server Face, JSR181 Web Services, enables the design of "page flows", facilitates the development of persistent objects, allows the deployment of applications on WLS versioned, ...
See you in June for the presentation of WebLogic Virtual Edition!
