Oracle WebLogic Server 10.3 available

Since yesterday the new Release of Oracle (BEA) WebLogic Server 10g Release 3 (10.3) is available. Now the BEA Products also get the same naming conventions like the Oracle Application Server Products, let's see how much confusion this will cause :-)

Under the OTN Webpage your can find some general informations and under OTN download page you can find the latest Release. Here you'll find two types of Installation binaries, the Fullinstaller and a Net Installer.

Some major new features/enhancements are:

• Optional Service Startup
• Web 2.0 Support
• ADF/Toplink support (with 11g)
• JDeveloper Support (with 11g)
  

Moreover a new Version of the Oracle Workshop for WebLogic 10.3 is released, also available with a Fullinstaller and a Net Installer. Workshop for WebLogic 10.3 is now IDE based on Eclipse 3.3 and WTP 2.0

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BEA Welcome and Oracle's Middleware Strategy Briefing

I follow right now the "Bea Welcome and Oracle's Middleware Strategy Briefing" and I was really impressed about the plans and direction where they want to go.

With the combination of both product stacks from Oracle Fusion Middleware and BEA Oracle will build up a lot of new and improved components.

Most changes will appear in the Service-Orient Architecture (SOA), e.g. the Oracle Enterprise Service Bus and BEA AquaLogic Service Bus will be unified to the new Oracle Service Bus.

Also a major focus are Enterprise 2.0 Portals, which are already started since last year with Oracle WebCenter Suite. The BEA WL-Portal development will be contiuned and integrated in the WebCenter Suite.

Oracle Identity Management will nearly stay the same, only extended with the BEA AL-Enterprise Security.

The classical DBA who works with Oracle GridControl will also get some new and refreshed Packs for the Middleware Stack.

As I assumed before the BEA Product Liquid VM will be integrated in the Oracle Product Stack. The only thing what I was not expecting is the move from Oracle Container for J2EE (OC4J) to the J2EE Server from BEA, but we will see how much "quirks" of the OC4J will be integrated :-)

If you couldn't follow the Webcast today, check out http://www.oracle.com/products/middleware/bea.html for details and if you interested in testing the BEA Stack, under http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/ias/bea_main.html you can already download the BEA Products.

One suggestion for the Product Managers of the Fusion Family, maybe you should think about to combine Liquid VM with Coherence, could be really cool just to run Coherence on a Liquid VM ...

Stars are shining bright :-) let's see what they realize and in which timeline ...

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