BEA WebLogic

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BEA Weblogic

BEA Weblogic
Developer: BEA Systems
Latest release: 10 / April, 2007
OS: Cross-platform
Use: Application server
License: Proprietary
Website: www.bea.com

Owned by BEA Systems, Inc, BEA Weblogic is a J2EE Platform product family that includes a J2EE application server- WebLogic Server, an enterprise portal - WebLogic Portal, an Enterprise Application Integration platform, a Transaction Server and Infrastructure - WebLogic Tuxedo, a Telecommunication Platform - WebLogic Communication Platform and also an HTTP web server for Unix, Linux, Microsoft Windows, and more.

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[edit] 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 this point, the founders worked together to pursue what was eventually to be called the Application Server.

[edit] Capabilities

BEE Weblogic Server is part of the BEA Weblogic Platform and supports Oracle, DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL Enterprise and other JDBC-compliant databases. The other parts of WebLogic Platform are:

  • Portal which includes Commerce Server and Personalization Server
  • Weblogic Integration
  • Weblogic Workshop, an IDE for Java
  • JRockit, a JVM for Intel CPUs.

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

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

[edit] Supported open standards

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