Weblogic Server Lives on in many forms...

Despite us being in a financial crisis, many older versions of weblogic continue to run successfully in many companies.

These include bea weblogic server 8.1 sp6
bea weblogic server 7.0
bea weblogic server 6.0
bea weblogic server 5.1

Old software often has end of life associated with it but many people continue to run older versions out of lifetime.
Knowing its nuances and after running with it for a teething period, this tends to work well once the application is mature
and stable and there is little to no reason or budget to move over to a newer version.

Newer versions can bring more features but at the same time more complexity , why re-invent the wheel when a older
simpler system works for your requirement.

Of course if you want to be on leading edge then you will go for oracle fusion middleware.
And if you want to be as near to leading edge but on a budget the choice is glassfish.

Till my next post
The Weblogic Guru

Cloud computing and weblogic....

July 20, 2009 - This was the day that oracle's grid architecture and weblogic server harmoniously came together.

From Oracle's website:

http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/021490

Oracle announced the release of Oracle® Coherence 3.5.

A component of Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle Coherence 3.5

This new version introduces Coherence Guardian, a safeguard that automatically detects and corrects service disruptions.

Oracle Coherence 3.5 provides native integration with Oracle WebLogic Server and Oracle WebLogic Portal, dramatically boosting the performance and scalability of applications deployed on these products.

In addition, Oracle Coherence 3.5 also includes a significant performance boost in the Coherence*Web session management module.

 I quote  from oracle website :

"These new capabilities help organizations improve their online customer experience, simplify the management of large web deployments, and differentiate their Web presence for competitive advantage."

 

So if you have gotton your head  round clusters and scalability this is really the final up-scale afterwards.

Really for big organisations or heavy use websites requiring the top end of resiliance and scalability.

For now recognise that oracle is investing heavily in this area and cloud computing is here to stay.

I will write more on this topic in a future post

Oracle Weblogic 11g - first looks

Just had look at this wonderful piece of kit.

weblogic 11g oracle name oracle middleware is currently at weblogic version 10.3.1.0
and is made to be harmoniously SOA orientated, first looks show a new fresh looking admin console, and a whole load more features, however nothing in this version really jumps out from first impressions and is this really a minor revision to 10 rather than a whole new version?
Well by naming it 11g will bring more of a marketing and branding advantage than a technical one like the fantastic name there marketing dept has come up with ...only time will tell the value that 11g will really bring...I am looking forward to oracle weblogic 11g v2.