Oracle WebLogic Server

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Oracle WebLogic Server
Developer(s)	Oracle Corporation
Stable release	12c Release 2 / 11 July 2013 (2013-07-11)
Operating system	Cross-platform
Type	Application server
License	Proprietary
Website	oracle.com

Owned by Oracle Corporation, Oracle WebLogic consists of a Java EE platform product-family that includes:

a Java EE application server, WebLogic Application Server
an enterprise portal, WebLogic Portal
an Enterprise Application Integration platform
a transaction server and infrastructure, WebLogic Tuxedo
a telecommunication platform, WebLogic Communication Platform
an HTTP web server

Application Server versions

WebLogic Server 12c Release 2 (12.1.2) - July 11, 2013^[1]
WebLogic Server 12c Release 1 (12.1.1) - Dec 1, 2011^[2]
WebLogic Server 11gR1 PS5 (10.3.6) - February 26, 2012^[3]
WebLogic Server 11gR1 PS4 (10.3.5) - May 16, 2011^[4]
WebLogic Server 11gR1 PS3 (10.3.4) - January 15, 2011
WebLogic Server 11gR1 PS2 (10.3.3) - April 2010^[5]
WebLogic Server 11gR1 PS1 (10.3.2) - November 2009
WebLogic Server 11g (10.3.1) - July 2009
WebLogic Server 10.3 - August 2008^[6]
WebLogic Server 10.0 - March 2007^[7]
WebLogic Server 9.2
WebLogic Server 9.1
WebLogic Server 9.0 - November 2006^[8]
WebLogic Server 8.1-bea - July 2003^[8]
WebLogic Server 7.0 - June 2002^[9]
WebLogic Server 6.1
WebLogic Server 6.0 - file date March 2001 on an old CD^[10]
WebLogic Server 5.1 (code name: Denali) First version supporting hot deployment for applications (via command line)
WebLogic Server 4.0
WebLogic Tengah 3.1 - June 1998^[11]
WebLogic Tengah 3.0.1 - March 1998^[12]
WebLogic Tengah 3.0 - January 1998^[13]
WebLogic Tengah - November 1997^[14]

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:

JRockit, a custom JVM.
Korthal that includes Commerce Server and Personalization Server
WebLogic Integration
WebLogic Workshop, an Eclipse IDE for Java, SOA and Rich Internet Applications

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

CORBA connectivity
COM+ Connectivity
IBM WebSphere MQ connectivity
Java EE Connector Architecture
Native enterprise-grade JMS messaging
WebLogic/Tuxedo Connector

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 Java EE and non-Java EE components

Components

As of 2010, Oracle Corporation regards the following products as "core components" of Oracle WebLogic Server:^[15]

Enterprise Grid Messaging
JMS Messaging Standard
JRockit
Oracle Coherence, in-memory caching of frequently used data across multiple servers^[16]
Oracle TopLink
Oracle WebLogic Server Web Services
Tuxedo

Supported open standards

BPEL & BPEL-J
ebXML
JAAS
Java EE 1.3, 1.4, 5, 6
JPA 1.0 & 2.0
JMX and SNMP
Native support for:
- SOAP
- UDDI
- WSDL
- WSRP
- WS-Security
XSLT and XQuery

Standards support by version

The table below lists major standards supported by WebLogic Server product version.

Standard	WLS 7.0	WLS 8.1	WLS 9.0	WLS 10.0	WLS 10.3	WLS 12c
Java	1.3	1.4	5	5	6 (7 in 10.3.6+)	7
Java EE	1.3	1.3	1.4	5	5	6
Servlet	1.2	2.3	2.4	2.5	2.5	3.0
JSP	1.2	1.2	2.0	2.1	2.1	2.2
EJB	2.0	2.0	2.1	3.0	3.0	3.1
JDBC	2.0	2.0	3.0	3.0	3.0	4.0

References

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↑ "Oracle Announces Availability of Oracle WebLogic Server 12c". www.oracle.com. 2011-12-01. Retrieved 2013-07-21.
↑ "WebLogic Server Weekly for February 27th: WLS 10.3.6 Releases, RESTful Management Services, SSL Offloading, Using Arquillian with WebLogic Server, Feature Version Timeline (The WebLogic Server Blog)". Blogs.oracle.com. 2012-02-26. Retrieved 2013-07-21.
↑ "Oracle WebLogic Server 11g Release 1 (10.3.5) Patch Set 4 seems to be out!". blog.eisele.net. 2011-05-06. Retrieved 2013-07-21.
↑ "Oracle TopLink Software Downloads". Oracle.com. Retrieved 2013-07-21.
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↑ Page 49
↑ 8.0 8.1 Page 23
↑ Page 22
↑ Cavaness, Chuck; Keeton, Brian (2001). Special Edition Using Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) 2.0. Pearson Education. p. 628. ISBN 0-7897-2567-3.
↑ "WebLogic News". Web.archive.org. Retrieved 2013-07-21.
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↑ "WebLogic Release Notes Release 3". Web.archive.org. 1998-07-04. Retrieved 2013-07-21.
↑ "WebLogic News". Web.archive.org. Retrieved 2013-07-21.
↑ Heiss, Kurt; et al. (2010). "3.1.2 Oracle WebLogic Server Core Components". Oracle Fusion Middleware Concepts Guide 11g Release 1 (11.1.1). Redwood City, CA: Oracle Corporation. Retrieved 2010-05-19. Cite uses deprecated parameters (help)
↑ Heiss, Kurt; et al. (2010). "Oracle Coherence". Oracle Fusion Middleware Concepts Guide 11g Release 1 (11.1.1). Redwood City, CA: Oracle Corporation. Retrieved 2010-05-19. "Oracle Coherence is a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware [...] providing [...] access to frequently used data. By automatically and dynamically partitioning data in memory across multiple servers, Oracle Coherence enables continuous data availability and transactional integrity, even in the event of a server failure. As a shared infrastructure, Oracle Coherence combines data locality with local processing power to perform real-time data analysis, in-memory grid computations, and parallel transaction and event processing." Cite uses deprecated parameters (help)

Bibliography

Patrick, Robert; Nyberg, Gregory; Aston, Philip (October 26, 2009). Professional Oracle WebLogic Server (1st ed.). Wrox. p. 816. ISBN 0-470-48430-6.

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