BEA WebLogic Server is part of the BEA WebLogic Platform™. The other parts of WebLogic Platform are a) Portal, which includes Commerce Server and Personalization Server (which is built on a BEA-produced RETE rules engine), b) WebLogic Integration, c) WebLogic Workshop, an IDE for Java, and d) JRockit, a JVM for Intel CPUs.
WebLogic Server includes .NETinteroperability and supports the following native integration capabilities:
BEA WebLogic Server Process Edition also includes Business Process Management and Data Mapping functionality.
WebLogic supports security policies managed by Security Administrators. The BEA WebLogic Server Security Model includes:
Separate application business logic from security code
Complete scope of security coverage for all J2EE and non-J2EE components
Versions
9.0 Due to ship by June 2005, discussed Summer 2004
8.1 Shipped Summer 2003, announced March 2003, discussed Jan 2003. However still by Summer 2004 not all enterprise customers were comfortable with its stability. Alfred Chuang, CEO of BEA Systems told analysts in August 2004 that his priorities included hardening WebLogic 8.1 to improve its scalability and reliability. There has been considerable debate around why BEA picked the number 8.1, thereby skipping 8.0. Developers suggested that 8.1 should have been 7.1 or perhaps 7.0.1. The website [1] (http://www.theserverside.com/) hosts WebLogic developer debates on these issues.
7.0 Previous version to 8.1. There was no 8.0 release. Released Summer 2002 only one year before 8.1, even though most vendors have an 18 month product lifecycle between major releases. After the release of 8.1, BEA encouraged its users on 6.1 or earlier to skip 7.0 and move directly to the freshly released 8.1. See advice from BEA (http://dev2dev.bea.com/products/wlserver81/whitepapers/wls_why_upgrade.jsp#3). (Often enterprise users wish to stay one release back from the current one in order to achieve greater reliability.)
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Some weblogs specialize in particular forms of presentation, such as images (see web comics), or videos (see videoblog), or on a particular theme, and portmanteaus have been coined for some of these, such as moblogs (for "mobile" blog).
Weblogs and Journalism in the Age of Participatory Media by Rebecca Blood argues that blogging is best understood as a form of personal publishing that is more often "participatory media" than journalism.
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