[news.eclipse.commercial] bea workshop for weblogic 10 released

["Pieter Humphrey" <pieterh@xxxxxxx>]

Posted by phumphrey on March 30, 2007 at 12:20 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)



BEA Workshop for WebLogic Platform 10 - Generally Available

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 Server® 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

  a.. Development for Server 10
  b.. Same iterative development experience as for Workshop 9.2
  c.. 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.
  d.. Light Java EE5 support

Migration for 9.2 and 8. 1 users

  a.. Opening a 9.2 workspace or projects will trigger a migration of the 
projects to 10.0 (user is prompted)
  b.. Automatic SCM checkout is performed
  c.. No going back to 9.2 - This is an in place migration
  d.. No cross development between 9.2 and 10.0
  e.. SCM implications (better branch before migration)
  f.. Binary compatibility with 9.2 ears provided via library versioning
  g.. Upgrade of 8.1 apps supported directly to 10.0

Beehive Service Control enhancements

  a.. Support in Service Control for incremental WLS 10.0 JWS enhancements
  b.. WS-Security 1.1
  c.. WS-Secure Conversations
  d.. SAML Token Profile
  e.. Binary (MTOM) web service message attachments (for images or other 
binary data)
  f.. 10.0 Service Control now works with 8.1 Web services including 
callbacks