Oracle Workshop for WebLogic 10g R3 is celebrating independence day. This year, I'm personally celebrating a long awaited declaration: that this upcoming release introduces a complete freedom from pricing, licensing and registration of any kind. Complete freedom for using your favorite dev/test server. All features of the Workshop for WebLogic IDE will be freely available on all supported platforms, including websphere, weblogic, tomcat, jboss, jetty and resin.
In addition, JDeveloper and ADF / TopLink runtime users will be supported on Oracle WebLogic Server 10g R3, allowing ADF driven application to extend farther into new supported platforms.
Oracle WebLogic Server 10g R3 developers who use Eclipse will find updated Workshop plug-ins for developing Java/EE and JAX-WS web services that are bundled with the server. Some of the major highlights of this release include:
Support for new industry standards
- IDE based on Eclipse 3.3 & WTP 2.0
- Support for JDK 6
- Windows Vista support
- XMLBeans 2.3 support
New Web Services Support
- JAX-WS tooling for Weblogic Server 10.3
- Design/Build/Deploy Support
- Start from Java or from WSDL
- JAX-B support with new JAX-B Wizard
- Create JAX-B types from schema
- Generate ant snippets
- New ClientGen Wizard
- Create Web Service Clients from JAX-RPC & JAX-WS Web Services
- Generate ClientGen ant snippets
- Updated JAX-RPC support for Weblogic 10.3
Support for EE5 Standards
- New EE5 Project Creation
- Create EE5 EAR and EJB Projects
- Create Web Applications based on new standards
- Servlet 2.5
- Full support for new Servlet spec, including optional web.xml
- JSP 2.1, JSF 1.2, JSTL 1.2
- Updated wizards and tag support for new standards (SunRI and Apache myFaces)
- WYSIWYG and AppXRay support for Universal Expression Language
New WebLogic Server Value Add
- Support for new WebLogic Fast Swap (Java Class Redefinition)
- Full Deploy/Debugging support for WLS 10.3
- Continued backward compatibility for WLS 8.1, 9.2, 10.0
- Remote Deployment that supports WLS 9.2, 10.0, and 10.3
- New Editors and Wizards for WebLogic Server Deployment Descriptors
- Application upgrade tools for older versions of WebLogic
Comments (6)
Do you know when WebLogic 10.3 is released? I'm certain I saw something in the past few days, but I cannot find any reference to it anywhere.
Pete
Posted by Pete | August 1, 2008 6:06 AM
Posted on August 1, 2008 06:06
The release should be available this coming monday, Aug 4th according to current schedule. While changes are possible, they are not likely.
Posted by Pieter Humphrey | August 1, 2008 11:49 AM
Posted on August 1, 2008 11:49
Hi,
What is the roadmap for Weblogic products ? what are the EOL dates for Weblogic 10 portal ?
Many thanks in advance..
Rupesh
Posted by Rupesh Jaisingkar | August 12, 2008 1:16 AM
Posted on August 12, 2008 01:16
BEA used to have two separate flavors: BEA workshop for Weblogic (which was available freely with weblogic) and BEA workshop studio (which was commercially licensed ~$1000). I hope this announcement means that the studio is made available for free and all features of workshop for weblogic has been merged into this studio or vice versa.
Posted by Mrinal Kanti | August 21, 2008 11:16 AM
Posted on August 21, 2008 11:16
Mrinal Kanti -- it does! The only thing that has been removed is the Adobe Flex Builder bundle. Otherwise, you got it exactly right. Oracle Workshop for WebLogic 10gR3 contains all workshop features for free.
-pieter
Posted by pieter humphrey | August 21, 2008 11:25 AM
Posted on August 21, 2008 11:25
Rupesh Jaisingkar --
you may want to see the BEA Strategy Webcast for this information.
http://www.oracle.com/products/middleware/bea.html
http://blogs.oracle.com/otn/2008/07/blogging_the_oracle_fusion_mid.html
- pieter
Posted by pieter humphrey | August 21, 2008 11:27 AM
Posted on August 21, 2008 11:27