BEA WebLogic Server 6'0 Technical Overview

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BEA WebLogic Server 6.0 Technical Overview
Orlando Java User Group

• Tad W. Stephens
• Principal System Engineer
• 11 April 2001

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BEA WebLogic Server 6.0 Technical Overview

• Introduction and Overview
• Usability and Manageability Improvements
• Increased Standards Support
• New Platform Services

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BEA WebLogic Server 6.0 Technical Overview

• Release Details
• Major Release of WebLogic
• Public Beta in Early October
• Production Release December 18th, 2000

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BEA WebLogic Server 6.0 Technical Overview

• Release Incorporates
• Usability and Manageability Improvements
• Increased Standards Support
• New Platform Services

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BEA WebLogic Server 6.0 Technical Overview

• Introduction and Overview
• Usability and Manageability Improvements
• Increased Standards Support
• New Platform Services

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BEA WebLogic Server 6.0 Technical Overview

• Focus on Decreasing Administration Overhead
• Easier for Large Enterprise Deployments
• More Insight into Server Status
• Focus on Developer Usability
• Easier Installation
• Easier Configuration in Development

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BEA WebLogic Server 6.0 Technical Overview

• Completely New Web Based Management Interface
  Offers
• All from a Web Browser
• Centralized User/Security Management
• Manage One Clusters from Console

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BEA WebLogic Server 6.0 Technical Overview

• More on the Web Based Management Interface
• Manages All Areas of Config
• Changes in Config Are Persistent
• Centralized App. Repository
• Metrics on Server Status (Cluster Health, User
  Sessions, Etc.)

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BEA WebLogic Server 6.0 Technical Overview
Administrate Entire Enterprise of WebLogic from
Single Console
Single Administrative Domain
WLS Admin
Cluster 1, San Jose
Cluster 2, Seattle
Cluster 3, Tokyo
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BEA WebLogic Server 6.0 Technical Overview

• Completely New Installation Infrastructure
• Uses InstallAnywhere -- Solaris, Windows, Linux,
  HP/UX, etc. Installer
• JDK Included in Package -- Ready to Run Out Of
  Box
• Automatic Service Pack/Update Functionality Coming

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BEA WebLogic Server 6.0 Technical Overview

• Now Localization Ready
• WebLogic 5.1 Already Can Be Used for Non-English
  Systems
• Japanese/Kanji Package Coming
• Enhanced SNMP (post-GA)
• App-generated Traps

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BEA WebLogic Server 6.0 Technical Overview

• Developer Usability
• Class Path and Class Loaders Completely
  Overhauled
• Easier to Use and Understand
• J2EE Packaging Tool (Post GA)
• Construct Deploy EARs, WARs From GUI.

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BEA WebLogic Server 6.0 Technical Overview

• Increased Standards Support
• J2EE Version 1.2 Complete
• EJB 1.1, JMS, JDBC, JTA, JavaMail, Servlet, JSP,
  JNDI
• Partial J2EE Version 1.3
• JMX
• EJB 2.0
• JCA
• Other Standards Implemented As Well...

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BEA WebLogic Server 6.0 Technical Overview

• Complete Distributed Transaction Manager
• Native Java Implementation
• Works with Any XA Compliant Resource
• Databases Via JDBC
• Message Queuing Systems (MQseries, WebLogic JMS)
• BEA Provides Oracle XA JDBC Driver

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BEA WebLogic Server 6.0 Technical Overview

• Complete Distributed Transaction Manager Via 2PC

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BEA WebLogic Server 6.0 Technical Overview

• Clustered JMS Service
• JMS Factories Distributed Throughout the Cluster
• Different Persistence Options
• Database
• File
• In Memory

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BEA WebLogic Server 6.0 Technical Overview

• Clustered JMS Service (more)
• Different Durability Options
• Unacknowledged
• Completely Transactional
• Different Transport Mechanisms
• RMI-based
• Multicast In Cluster

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BEA WebLogic Server 6.0 Technical Overview

• EJB 2.0 Implementation
• Supports Both 1.1 and 2.0 Beans
• Rudimentary dependent object support
• Includes Message Driven Beans
• EJB Can Be Automatic JMS Consumer
• Beings Invoked When Messages Arrive in Queue

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Enterprise Java Beans 2.0

• Integration of EJB with JMS Message-Driven
  Beans (MDB)
• EJB Can Be Automatic JMS Consumer
• Beans Invoked When Messages Arrive in Queue
• Revision of CMP for entity beans
• Relationships
• Persistence Managers
• Portable finder query syntax
• More efficient data loading
• Additional methods on the EJB Home interfaces
• Run-as security modes
• Defined interoperability protocol based on IIOP

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BEA WebLogic Server 6.0 Technical Overview

• EJB 2.0 Implementation (more)
• Native O/R Mapping
• Entity Bean Relations
• Support for simple objects
• Defer to Database for Locking
• Option for Optimistic Concurrency
• Dependent Objects
• Not part of EJB 2.0 at this time
• Support for dependent value objects in WLS 6.0

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BEA WebLogic Server 6.0 Technical Overview

• Security Improvements
• Partial JAAS Implementation (Authentication)
• Complete Java 2 Security Model
• JDK 1.3 Required for Server Execution
• JDK 1.2 Clients Supported

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BEA WebLogic Server 6.0 Technical Overview

• Introduction and Overview
• Usability and Manageability Improvements
• Increased Standards Support
• New Platform Services

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BEA WebLogic Server 6.0 Technical Overview

• New Platform Services
• Major Web Server Enhancements
• Additional XML Platform Support
• Additional Scalability and Reliability Features

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BEA WebLogic Server 6.0 Technical Overview

• Major Web Server Enhancements
• Native Code Extensions for File Serving
• In Performance Pack
• Faster and More Scalable Than Apache
• Support for Virtual Hosting
• Host Multiple Domains on a Single WebLogic

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BEA WebLogic Server 6.0 Technical Overview

• Major Web Server Enhancements
• Integrated User Management
• Manage User Accounts and Access in Console
• Full Support for HTTP Version 1.1
• Upgrades Support from 1.0 with Partial 1.1

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BEA WebLogic Server 6.0 Technical Overview

• Major Web Server Enhancements
• Integrated with Web Load Balancing Solutions
• Fully Functional Clustering Including In Memory
  Replication
• Hardware Alteon/Nortel and others
• Software Resonate

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BEA WebLogic Server 6.0 Technical Overview

• The Old Way

WLS
Web Server
WL Plug-In (NSAPI, ISAPI)
Web Load Balancer
Web Server
WLS
WL Plug-In (NSAPI, ISAPI)
Cluster
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BEA WebLogic Server 6.0 Technical Overview

• Using WebLogic As Web ServerApplication Server
  in One

WLS
Web Load Balancer
To Clients
WLS
Cluster
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BEA WebLogic Server 6.0 Technical Overview

• Major Web Server Enhancements
• Webserver Plug-in to WebLogic
• SSL Encryption (6.0 SP-Jan)
• Connection Pooling for Plug-ins
• IIOP Security
• RMI/IIOP over SSL

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BEA WebLogic Server 6.0 Technical Overview

• Enhanced XML Support
• Single XML and XSL Processors
• XSL Processing Tags for JSP
• XML Schema Repository
• DTD Repository
• Managed by Console
• JAXP Implementation
• Easier Access to XML Parsers

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BEA WebLogic Server 6.0 Technical Overview

• New XML Prerelease Features
• Available on BEA Developer Center
• SOAP Implementation
• Data Binding Reference Impl.
• DOClet/DOMlet Examples
• And More to Come

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BEA WebLogic Server 6.0 Technical Overview

• Additional Scalability / Reliability Features
• In Memory Replication Stateful Session Beans
• The Servlet Model Extended to Session Beans
• JDBC MultiPools
• Multi-JDBC Pool Load Balancing
• JDBC Pool Failover
• Support for Multiple, Independent DBMSes

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BEA WebLogic Server 6.0 Technical Overview

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