BEA Announces WebLogic 9.2 Family for AJAX-Supported SOA Enablement

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Thursday, July 13, 2006; 04:36 AM

BEA Systems, developer of enterprise infrastructure software, announced the general availability of WebLogic Portal 9.2, WebLogic Server 9.2 and BEA Workshop for WebLogic 9.2.  The new products extend WebLogic as a leading Java Enterprise Edition (JEE) application infrastructure platform to build, blend and deploy service-enabled applications. 

“The BEA WebLogic product family continues to lead the market with excellent growth and innovation in the market,” said Wai Wong, executive vice president, BEA Systems, Inc. “The new releases of WebLogic Portal, WebLogic Server and Workshop for WebLogic are designed to accelerate the service-driven enterprise by helping to enable IT to simplify and unify the development and deployment of enterprise assets. In particular, we’re driving industry innovation with Weblogic Portal 9.2 by massively scaling our administration tools to meet large-scale application demands and improving flexibility for federated applications, helping enterprises further support Service-Oriented Architecture aggregation models and strengthen their enterprise architecture. As a result, BEA can help enterprises to rapidly evolve into a shared services environment so that they can deliver faster time-to-value, ultimately driving business value and competitive advantage.”

The enhancements included in WebLogic Portal 9.2 are:

•Standards-based portlet federation, based upon the WSRP standard, with support for syndication of portal books and pages, personalized delivery, performance optimization and service lifecycle governance.
•A new community framework, as part of portal business services that is designed to simplify portal membership, management, and end user production of community portals.
•Portal lifecycle management capabilities including the new release of BEA Workshop for WebLogic which provides an Eclipse-based development environment for Java, portal, Web, and service-oriented applications. Also, portal propagation is included to help simplify the IT management for moving portals through staging from development to production.
•Upgrade wizards are designed to allow customers to upgrade the portal domain from 6.1, 7.0, 8.1 and WebLogic Portal 8.1.4 and 8.1.5 portal applications

SOA Development the Eclipse Way

BEA Workshop for WebLogic Platform 9.2 delivers a standards-based development tool and optional programming model that is designed to help IT deliver new SOA services, simplify development and more easily leverage existing systems. By blending and enhancing open source technologies, Workshop for WebLogic also gives professional and procedural developers Eclipse tools designed to match their programming style. Version 9.2 includes the following enhancements:

•Eclipse 3.1 tools for SOA components, Web Services, Web Applications, WebLogic Portal and JEE development
•Upgrade wizards for customers to upgrade an 8.1 workshop domain and 8.1 workshop applications to Workshop for WebLogic

Accelerate Your SOA Initiatives

BEA WebLogic Server 9.2 is designed to offer enterprise-grade functionality to help keep applications up and running while helping to reducing costs associated with monitoring and managing production systems. By providing support for blended development models, customers can improve developer productivity by mixing standard Java EE development practices with some of the best open source frameworks available. Refinements included in WebLogic Server 9.2 are:

•Zero downtime enhancements for the upgrade of individual WebLogic Server nodes in a cluster without needing to take an entire cluster off line
•Hot swappable application deployment improvements to support web services, rich client applications and Web applications

The BEA WebLogic Product Family offers products and services that are designed to help companies to achieve faster time-to-value for critical business applications using open standards, web services and SOA. In addition to BEA WebLogic Server, the platform includes BEA WebLogic Portal, BEA WebLogic Integration, BEA Workshop and BEA JRockit.

For more information on the BEA WebLogic Product Family visit www.bea.com/weblogic.