Dr. Frank Munz, one of our most esteemed Oracle Aces, has just released an updated book on Oracle WebLogic 12c, which contains more than 130 additional pages, half a dozen new webcasts and more than 16 new or rewritten recipes.
From the book abstract: Imagine you need to know about a problem with your car's engine. You could plough through the 1000-page manual. Or you could chat to the mechanic over a cup of coffee. That's WebLogic 12c Advanced Recipes. It's WebLogic for software architects, administrators and developers. For people like you who know quite a bit about WebLogic. What you don't want is the typical 'recipe book' full of screenshots. Click here. Click there. Do this. Do that. That's WebLogic by numbers. What you really want are the things you won't find in the manual, like recommendations, discussions, best practices, deployable projects, webcast videos and directions on when to use a feature - and when not to. With all this and more, this book is the perfect complement to official courses and manuals. In short, this gem of a book is almost as good as attending one of Frank's renowned workshops.

Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA), the German federal employment agency, is the leading provider of labor-market services in Germany. With more than 100,000 employees, BA is the largest German government agency and one of the largest employers in the country. Supporting more than 6 million customers and a rapidly growing IT department, BA needed an application infrastructure and management solution that could help to increase IT efficiency while decreasing complexity. To provide a comprehensive solution for its Oracle application platform, the agency decided to deploy Oracle WebLogic Server and Oracle Enterprise Manager. The combination provided BA with the availability, scalability, and performance to meet critical requirements, such as on-time job placements and compensation provisioning—while significantly reducing IT administration costs. Get more details from the recent BA case study and review their press release.

Reliance Commercial Finance provides loans for real estate, commercial and private vehicles, construction equipment, and infrastructure to more than 70,000 customers, including businesses and individuals. The company has an operational presence that spans 66 locations in India, and it is one of the fasting growing nonbanking financial companies in the country.

With more than 2,000 users accessing the company’s core applications every day, the legacy IT infrastructure was struggling to process more than 6,000 daily transactions, especially during peak periods, such as the last five days of each month. It was also time-consuming and costly to manage and track customer-loan applications and approvals across multiple systems. The legacy system increased customer churn and time to market. 

To address these issues, the company implemented Oracle WebLogic Suite and Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud to ensure high-performance, high availability, and scalability for its core applications. It also enabled seamless integration with Oracle Exadata Database Machine. These implementations accelerated loan transaction speed by 30% and increased IT staff members’ productivity by 70%. In addition, the financial institution improved its competitiveness by accelerating the customer loan approval process by 3x and slashing new application deployments from eight weeks to one day, thereby increasing customer satisfaction. Complete details of Reliance Commercial Finance's use case can be found here.

Japanese multinational, NEC corporation, plans on offering the unique Active GridLink for RAC, providing intelligent integration between Oracle WebLogic Server and Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC), to customers for its higher performance, availability, and simplified operations. Check out Naoto Kashiwagi, Assistant Manager, NEC discuss Active GridLink benefits in great detail.

Oracle takes the top spot for market share in the Application Platform Market Segment for 2013 according to the March 2014 Gartner “Market Share: All Software Markets, Worldwide 2013” report.

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Many developers (and their companies) are moving their Java applications from the Oracle GlassFish application server to the more feature-rich Oracle WebLogic application server. In this free, developer-focused webcast, we'll take a sample Java EE application and walk you through the most common migration scenarios to get your applications redeployed on WebLogic. We'll also take a peek at the differences between the two technologies and how you can leverage them.

Migrating Apps from GlassFish to WebLogic
Wednesday, April 30
10am Pacific Time
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Note if you are unable to attend, the webinar will be archived about 48 hours following the event on our DevCast page in the "On-Demand" section.

As the world's #1 application server, Oracle WebLogic runs a lot of Java apps. And all those Java apps were built by some really smart developers who learned to code in Java.

Coming in just a few days, Oracle is hosting a Virtual Developer Day giving Java developers of all levels another opportunity to learn more about how they can build amazing applications with the latest Java flavors; SE, EE and Embedded. Following the Virtual Developer Day, we'd love to hear how you're running your rich new apps on WebLogic. But we're unashamedly biased on this blog, of course.


Java Virtual Developer Day
May 6, 9am-1pm Pacific Time

Watch tutorials from the experts to improve your expertise in Java, the world's #1 development platform. Get technical information from Java experts and ask questions during live chats. This FREE virtual event will cover:

• Java SE 8 New Features: Lambdas and more
• A technical introduction to the Java EE 7 platform
• How Java makes it easy for you to control a wide range of embedded devices
• Get the latest information about Java from the experts: Java SE 8, Java EE and Java Embedded.
• Learn about Lambdas and more!

This event is FREE, but you must register. Register NOW!

Oracle WebLogic Server on Oracle Database Appliance 2.9 offers a complete solution for building and deploying enterprise Java EE applications in a fully integrated system of software, servers, storage, and networking that delivers highly available database and WebLogic services. The world's most popular database, Oracle Database and the industry's best application server, WebLogic Server have been combined in this industry-unique appliance to provide high availability and the simplicity of One-Button deployment. And to top it all off, it reduces IT cost with a unique capacity-on-demand software licensing model.

Here you can download the new version of WebLogic on ODA 2.9 which offers WebLogic templates for 11g  (10.3.6), 12c (12.1.1 and 12.1.2).

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/weblogic-oda/downloads/index.html

The following highlighted new features are included in this release:

• Supports new X4-2 hardware with more capacity, faster processor, better networking with no price increase!
• WebLogic on ODA provisioning tool now offers multi domain and multi cluster options in the wizard-driven templates.
• New licensing options include a 'pool' of WebLogic licenses with min/max range, that can be allocated to WebLogic, Oracle Traffic Director and other Oracle Cloud Application Foudation products.
• Provides a 'silent provisioning' option.
• A new WebLogic on ODA provisioning wizard-driven template with a nicer GUI.
• Shared storage repository option.
  

Therap Services is a web-based service organization that provides an integrated solution for documentation, reporting and communication needs of agencies providing support to people with developmental disabilities. It is a niche segment in the health sector. Its products and services are used by people in over 48 states in the US and by governments in at least five US states. Therap was using JBoss application server and managing it was becoming difficult. JBoss messaging proved difficult as well with out of band situations that it couldn't handle. Therap opted for WebLogic as their primary application delivery platform. Now Oracle Enterprise Manager [OEM] and JVM Diagnostics [JVMD] provide deep monitoring and visibility into the application stack. These tools have uncovered many bottlenecks in the Therap application that otherwise wouldn't have been found and fixed. "The benefits and results of Oracle solutions are huge", says Mojahedul Hoque Abul Hasanat (Masum), CTO, Therap Services. The performance relative to JBoss are order of magnitude higher, he says. Watch this video and find out more details.

We were recently pleased to present a webcast on the upcoming release of WebLogic 12.1.3. Steve Button on our product management team gives a nice overview of where we are, and where we're planning to go.

Watch the free video here in the "On-Demand" section.

Finally, the third and final section of our three-part series podcast: Oracle's WebLogic Database integration expert Monica Riccelli highlights capabilities from the brand new 12c integration such as Multitenancy and Global Data Services. Monica and I discuss the capabilities in detail along with customer use cases and benefits. Tune into the podcast.

In this part two of a three-part series podcast, Oracle's WebLogic Database integration expert Monica Riccelli highlights capabilities from the brand new 12c integration such as application continuity and DRCP. Monica and I discuss the capabilities in detail along with customer use cases and benefits. Tune into the podcast.

In this part one of a three-part series podcast, Oracle's WebLogic Database integration expert Monica Riccelli and I highlight this unique offering from Oracle. Monica highlights capabilities such a Application Continuity, Database Resident Connection Pooling (DRCP), and Multitenancy from the brand new 12c integration. She provides details of Active Gridlink for RAC and the improvements that NEC experienced with it. Take a listen.

Part II of this podcast series will be released next week. It will focus on specific 12c integration capabilities.  

In case you are wondering what the actual steps are to go about upgrading to the latest WebLogic rev, here is the video for that -- 5 Steps to WebLogic Nirvana. Enjoy!  

WebLogic is the strategic application server infrastructure for Oracle Fusion Middleware and Applications. It is designed to provide a standards-based, mission critical and secure platform for organizations developing and deploying large-scale, cloud environments. Oracle iAS capabilities like Oracle TopLink and Oracle Coherence along with layered products such as Oracle Forms, Oracle Reports, Oracle Discoverer and Oracle Portal and others have been certified with the WebLogic Server infrastructure. The J2EE runtime underlying Oracle Internet Application Server, Oracle Containers for J2EE (OC4J) has had key capabilities converged and certified with WebLogic Server. The goal has been to enable Oracle customer investments in Oracle Internet Application Server to move forward seamlessly. Watch the following video to learn more.