01.b. WebLogic Evolution

WebLogic Evolution

WebLogic 12c

-WebLogic Current version is 12c it will be in the market up to 2019.
-WebLogic 12c supports the cloud facility.
-WebLogic Server 12c versions
         WebLogic Server 12c Release 3 (12.1.3)
         WebLogic Server 12c Release 2 (12.1.2)
         WebLogic Server 12c Release 1 (12.1.1)

WebLogic 11g

 -WebLogic 11g supports grid computing system. There was a big confusion version numbers for WebLogic 11g.
 -Version from 10.3.1 to 10.3.6 is said to be WebLogic 11g

      • WebLogic Server 11gR1 PS5 (10.3.6)
      • WebLogic Server 11gR1 PS4 (10.3.5)
      • WebLogic Server 11gR1 PS3 (10.3.4)
      • WebLogic Server 11gR1 PS2 (10.3.3)
      • WebLogic Server 11gR1 PS1 (10.3.2)
      • WebLogic Server 11g (10.3.1)

WebLogic 10g -This version of WebLogic is delta period one, which does not have much market share in the enterprise applications. Oracle acquired WebLogic and started merging best features of Oracle Internet Application server (iAS). WebLogic 10g provided concept of JMS module and subdeployments.
      • WebLogic Server 10.3
      • WebLogic Server 10.0

WebLogic 9.2 with MPx


-From this version onwards WebLogic taken over by Oracle company from BEA.
-In 9.x there is option to update an application that is deployed from the admin console. No need to un-install and redeploy
-Side by side deployment is possible in 9x
  • WebLogic Server 9.2
  • WebLogic Server 9.1
  • WebLogic Server 9.0

WebLogic 8x

-It is said to most successful version of Enterprise Application Servers. This version introduced the cross platform communication with SOA (Service oriented architecture) was initiated in this version.

• WebLogic Server 8.1

( <8x versions are not much using in the current projects)

WebLogic Server 7.0
WebLogic Server 6.1
WebLogic Server 6.0
WebLogic Server 5.1  -First version supporting hot deployment for applications (via command line)WebLogic Server 4.0
WebLogic Tengah 3.1
WebLogic Tengah 3.0.1
WebLogic Tengah 3.0
WebLogic Tengah

WebLogic 12c New features

WebLogic 12c has around 200 new features as mentioned below.

• Fast swap deployment
• Maven Plugins
• Supporting JDK1,6 and above versions
• SOA web services Ready platform
• Elastic Cloud