I attended the Weblogic 12c boot camp this week and learned
some great features of it and I
like to share some of them.
The Cloud Application
Foundation: everything you need in one box. It’s the foundation of the next
generation of Fusion Middleware stack. Oracle traffic directory sitting on the
top serves the software load balancer (can replace web cache server). Virtual assembly
builder sitting at the bottom better simplifies the deployment process for
multi-tier application topologies in a centralized virtualized environment.
Oracle Traffic
Director: Oracle Traffic Director is
a fast, reliable, and scalable layer-7 software load balancer that you can
deploy as the reliable entry point for all HTTP and HTTPS traffic to
application servers and web servers in your network. OTD will replace
Oracle Web Cache as a software load balancer on Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud. Oracle
says it delivers a 3 to 4 times performance boost to the Oracle WebLogic
applications. OTD Data sheet can be found here.
Documentation on OTD can be found here. Documentation on VSB can be found here.
Java 6/7 support: with
new Java release, you are supposed to write less code to achieve your
functionalities. Dependency injection, annotation, POJO and REST are all
supported. You will have a cleaner and more maintainable application with Java
6/7. Besides, some nice code automations: on JDBC, no need to close the
connection and the Java does it for you after execution of your code.
Enhanced Enterprise
Manager with Cloud Control: lots of new features come with the EM on
performance monitoring and diagnostics, configuration management and cloud
management. You can take a snapshot of the diagnostics logs before restart the
server for later analysis. Cloud management with build-in oracle support allows
easy patching/unpatching and upgrading.
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