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Now that Oracle has announced the BEA strategy, it’s time to make sure that the Oracle WebLogic server becomes a huge success. And for this to happen, Oracle needs to announce an application server “Express Edition” - like they have for the database.

This should be free and include ADF. That would lead many more developers to use ADF, which has excellent productivity and gives the highest probability of success for a Java database web application. Like the Database XE, the app server XE version would of course be limited to one CPU, forum-only support etc.

Wouldn’t that be great? If you think so, please head over to Oracle Mix and vote for the idea “Please create a free App Server XE product“.

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It’s official: Oracle’s new JEE server is WebLogic. The strategic product will be called Oracle WebLogic, while OC4J has dropped into the “Continue & Converge” category. The reason for not dropping OC4J completely seems to be the need to let Oracle Applications customers continue running on their existing infrastructure.

While I have not made a solid technical comparison, the enthusiasm of the BEA community for WebLogic seems to indicate that it’s technologically superior to OC4J - I’ve never felt really enthusiastic about OC4J…

On the downside, this means the entire humongous Fusion Middleware stack now has to be tested with a new core component, making it very unlikely that we’ll see Oracle Application Server 11g this year.

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