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BEA Workshop for WebLogic Platform 10 - Generally Available    

Posted by: nathan.g - on Thursday, April 12, 2007 - 04:15 PM
 
Highlights in this release

In addition to leveraging the latest Eclipse 3.2 and WebTools 1.5, Workshop for WebLogic now installs as a plug-in to an existing Eclipse installation. This release supports for WebLogic ServerŪ 10 and also provides a Multi-version upgrade wizard for both 9.2 and 8.1 users. Other key enhancements focus on improvements to the Beehive Web Service Control, and ANT build script export.



Additional Details:
Workshop 10.0 based on Eclipse 3.2.1 and WTP 1.5.2 + patches

  • Development for Server 10

  • Same iterative development experience as for Workshop 9.2

  • Only supports WebLogic Server 10.0, use W4WP 9.2 for WLS 9.2 development. The merge release this summer will support 10 and 9.2.

  • Light Java EE5 support



Migration for 9.2 and 8. 1 users

  • Opening a 9.2 workspace or projects will trigger a migration of the projects to 10.0 (user is prompted)

  • Automatic SCM checkout is performed

  • No going back to 9.2 *This is an in place migration

  • No cross development between 9.2 and 10.0

  • SCM implications (better branch before migration)

  • Binary compatibility with 9.2 ears provided via library versioning

  • Upgrade of 8.1 apps supported directly to 10.0


Beehive Service Control enhancements

  • Support in Service Control for incremental WLS 10.0 JWS enhancements

  • WS-Security 1.1

  • WS-Secure Conversations

  • SAML Token Profile

  • Binary (MTOM) web service message attachments (for images or other binary data)

  • 10.0 Service Control now works with 8.1 Web services including callbacks