Oracle Weblogic Server

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Oracle WebLogic Ram
Developer(s) Oracle Corporation
Stable release 10gR3 / July, 2008
Operating system Cross-platform
Type Application server
License Proprietary
Website http://www.oracle.com/appserver/weblogic/enterprise-edition.html

Owned by Oracle Corporation, Oracle WebLogic consists of a J2EE platform product family that includes:

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[edit] History

Main article WebLogic, Inc.

Prior to co-founding Weblogic, Inc., in September 1995, Paul Ambrose and Carl Resnikoff had developed (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.[1]

This WebLogic 1.48 server had the name T3Server (a bastardization of "3-Tier Server"). Concurrently, Pitman and Pasker had worked on network-management tools written in Java. Pasker had written an SNMP stack in Java and a W32 native method for ICMP ping, while Pitman worked on applets to display the management data.

The 1.48 server version had (among other hidden features) the ability to extend it by modifying a dispatcher and adding a handler for different types of messages. Pasker talked Ambrose into sending him the source code for the server, and Pasker extended it so that applets could make SNMP and PING requests on the network, and display the results.

At this point, the founders worked together to pursue what eventually became the "Application Server".

BEA Systems acquired WebLogic, Inc. in 1998, following which it became BEA WebLogic. Oracle acquired BEA in 2008, following which it became Oracle WebLogic.

[edit] Application Server versions

  • WebLogic Server 10.3 - Aug 2008 [2]
  • WebLogic Server 10.0 - Mar 2008 [3]
  • WebLogic Server 9.2
  • WebLogic Server 9.1
  • WebLogic Server 9.0 - Nov 2006 [4]
  • WebLogic Server 8.1 - Jul 2003 [5]
  • WebLogic Server 7.0 - Jun 2002 [6]
  • WebLogic Server 6.1
  • WebLogic Server 6.0 - file date March 2001 on an old CD [7]

[edit] Capabilities

Oracle WebLogic Server forms part of Oracle Fusion Middleware portfolio and supports Oracle, DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL Enterprise and other JDBC-compliant databases. Oracle WebLogic Platform also includes:

  • Portal which includes Commerce Server and Personalization Server
  • WebLogic Integration
  • WebLogic Workshop, an Eclipse IDE for Java, SOA and Rich Internet applications
  • JRockit, a JVM for Intel CPUs.

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

Oracle WebLogic Server Process Edition also includes Business Process Management and Data Mapping functionality. WebLogic supports security policies managed by security administrators. The Oracle WebLogic Server Security Model includes:

  • application business logic separated from security code
  • complete scope of security coverage for all J2EE and non-J2EE components

[edit] Supported open standards

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.java/browse_frm/thread/5fdca8d6d7c775d9/3fcc8d7c887d9cea?lnk=st&q=weblogic+dbkona&rnum=87#3fcc8d7c887d9cea An old dbKona/An T3 Usenet posting
  2. ^ http://www.oracle.com/support/collateral/lsp-tech-chart.pdf Page 1
  3. ^ http://www.oracle.com/support/collateral/lsp-tech-chart.pdf Page 19
  4. ^ http://www.oracle.com/support/collateral/lsp-tech-chart.pdf Page 19
  5. ^ http://www.oracle.com/support/collateral/lsp-tech-chart.pdf Page 19
  6. ^ http://www.oracle.com/support/collateral/lsp-tech-chart.pdf Page 19
  7. ^ Cavaness, Chuck; Keeton, Brian (2001). Special Edition Using Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) 2.0. Pearson Education. pp. 628. ISBN 0-7897-2567-3. 

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