BEA WebLogic Server 6.1 New Feature Overview

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BEA WebLogic Server 6.1New Feature Overview

• WebLogic Server
• Alexander Berry, Jr.
• aberry_at_bea.com

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BEA WebLogic E-Business Platform
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WLS 6.1 New Feature Overview

• Release Themes
• Web services support
• J2EE 1.3 update
• XML enhancements

• Other Enhancements
• jDriver enhancements
• JMS enhancements
• Improved OAM
• WebLogic/Tuxedo Integration
• Localization

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Simple Web Services
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Simple Web Services Model

• Communication over HTTP via SOAP
• Advertising the Web Service via WSDL
• Search and Discovery of Web Services via UDDI

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Web Services Support

• Simple Web Services extensions of J2EE model
• Web Services inherit capabilities of leading app
  server
• RPC-style Web Services Stateless EJBs
• Message-style Web Services JMS listeners,
  message-driven beans

WebLogic Server 6.1
WebLogic Thin Java client
Stateless EJB
SOAP Router Servlet
Request
HTTP
Other J2EE Components
SOAP Client
Message Driven Bean
JMS
WSDL
XML Message
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J2EE Enhancements
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J2EE 1.3 Update

• Support for some features of J2EE version 1.3
• JCA 1.0 - new
• EJB 2.0 - updated
• Servlet 2.3 new
• JSP 1.2 - new
• Will continue the support of full J2EE version 1.2

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The BEA Difference Commitment to standards and
openness
Java 1.3 with HotSpot
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EIS Integration with J2EE Connector
J2EE Connector Architecture v1.0
EIS (CICS, Siebel, SAP, People Soft)

• Defines standards-based approach to EAI
• New API in J2EE 1.3
• Uses available resources
• Connection management
• Transaction management
• Security management
• Resource Adapters developed by partners
• Common Client Interface API for user components
• Optional

EIS Adaptor
EIS Adaptor
BEA WebLogic Server
Connection Management
BEA WebLogic J2EE Connector Architecture
Transaction Management
Common Client Interface (CCI)
Security Management
User Components
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J2EE Connector Architecture

• Resource Adaptor (RA) has to be deployed on WLS
  like any other EJB or Web application
• Supports hot deployments
• Can be deployed via the console
• Also, can be deployed as a part of .EAR file
• May need native libraries loaded during the
  deployment process
• RA comes with its own ra.xml
• weblogic-ra.xml overrides properties in ra.xml

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XML Enhancements
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XML Enhancements Details

• XML Parser
• SAX V2.0, DOM Level 2, final W3C schema support
• High performance non-validating parser
• XML Transformation
• Based on Apache Xalan 2.0 XSL Processor
• Standard APIs for development
• JAXP 1.1 (SAX V2.0, DOM Level 2), plugable
  parsing and transformation

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JMS Enhancements
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JMS New Features

• Management and monitoring of durable subscribers
• Four additional settings
• 1. Delay seeing a message after rolling back a
  transaction
• 2.Delay seeing a message after recovering a
  message.
• 3. Retry count and dead message queue.
• 4. Birth times for messages

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JMS Integration

• Integrating JMS with Foreign Providers
• http//developer.bea.com/docs/jmsproviders.jsp
• IBM MQSeries classes for JMS 5.2
• Progress SonicMQ 3.0
• Fiorano JMS 5.0
• IBus MessageServer 4.10
• Also can be classes from TIBCO

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Operation Administration Mangement Enhancements
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WebLogic Management and Administration
Web-based distributed management

• Cluster View
• Virtual Domains
• JMX-based architecture
• SNMP agents
• Compatible with
• BMC Patrol
• CA Unicenter
• HP Openview
• IBM Tivoli
• Wiley

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WebLogic Management and Administration

• Deployment Descriptors Editor
• XML-based Configuration files
• Hot Deployment
• JNDI Tree Viewer
• Monitors all deployed components
• EJBs
• Servlets
• Web Services
• Database pools
• J2EE Connector Adapters
• JMS Destinations/Factories

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Server-side Load Balancing via clustering

• Load-balancing
• Handle unpredictable Web loads
• Failover
• Provide reliable services to customers
• High-performance
• Fast response times

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Tuxedo Integration
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WebLogic/Tuxedo Interoperability

• Close interoperability with Tuxedo
• Bi-directional security and transactional context
  propagation
• Access to C/C, Cobol applications through CORBA
• Facilitated with RMI/IIOP, Java IDL functionality

Java/RMI Clients
CORBA Clients
/WS Clients
Web Browser Clients
Tuxedo 8.0
Method calls, Security, Transactions
WebLogic Server
CORBA
WTC
ATMI
J2EE
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WebLogic Development Tools

• Open Tools Support
• Borland jBuilder
• Netbeans
• TogetherSoft, Rational, Forte, AltoWeb
• notepad,vi,emacs
• Other
• WebGain Studio
• VisualCafé, Top Link, StructureBuilder
• WebLogic integration
• EJB Project
• Distributed debugging, incl. JSP debugging
• UML modeling
• EJB 2.0/1.1 CMP Mapping

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Other tools

• CAJUN (What is it?)
• ANT
• Webservices Portlet Builder
• BEA XML Editor
• Log4J (in WLI)
• Junit (in WLI)
• MDBGenerator(in WLI)

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BEA WebLogic Server Releases
Gauntlet
J2EE TBD
(Q2 2004)
Olympic
J2EE 1.4
(Q2 2003)
Acadia
J2EE 1.3
(Q2 2002)
WLS 6.1
WLS 6.0
J2EE 1.2
(Q4 2000)
(Q3 2001)
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Acadia Feature HighlightsAdministration

• Dynamic Configuration
• JMX Administration for WTC
• Simplify Cluster Administration (e.g., eliminate
  requirement of defining multiple IP addresses per
  machine)
• Server Lifecycle
• Server Startup
• EJB 2.0 and J2EE Specifications
• WebServices Enhancements

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Merrill Lynch ROI
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Case Study of Merrill Lynch
Challenges

• Partner Integration
• Guaranteed messaging
• High Security Levels
• High Performance
• High Availability

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Case Study of Merrill Lynch
Key Benefits

• Reduction in staff via automation
• Reduction in staff via on-line customer support
• Reduction in Private Network cost via B2B
  solutions

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Case Study of Merrill Lynch
ROI

• Total Benefits 2,840,628
• direct 78
• indirect 22
• Total Cost 44,375
• software 80
• Personnel 20
• ROI 364
• payback 5 months
• TCO 148,548

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