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Oracle lists more than 200 new features in WebLogic 12c - unfortunately, I don’t get to use them.

The improvements fall in two main categories:

• Management, Performance and High Availability (HA)
• Java EE 6

As a developer, management and high availability is “somebody else’s problem” - I appreciate the work my app server admin does, but it doesn’t affect the code I write to meet business needs. I welcome performance improvements as much as the next guy - but I want them to be transparent and not force me to code for a specific performance feature of a specific app server.

I would really like to be able to utilize the new features in JEE6, but for the time being, this is restricted to “pure” Java programming. As an Oracle Fusion Middleware developer using various parts of the FMW stack, I will have to wait for my beloved Application Development Framework to be supported on WebLogic 12c. I hope the wait will be short!

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On one of the ODTUG mailing lists, we had a discussion about the cost of running ADF, so I thought I’d share the numbers I came up with.

The April technology price list shows:

• A pure TopLink and ADF license for $5800 per CPU. You can run this on any server - unfortunately, ADF 11g is only supported on Weblogic…
• Internet Application Server Standard Edition One for the same $5800 per CPU.

Interestingly, the Oracle Application Server includes something called WebLogic Server Basic (aka “The Secret WebLogic License”). Careful reading of the Oracle Fusion Middleware Licensing 11g manual will uncover the statement "When Oracle Internet Application Server is licensed independently of WebLogic Suite, a constrained WebLogic license, called WebLogic Server Basic, is included". You’ll find a description of this in Appendix A of the Licensing manual. While the restrictions do take away most of what makes WebLogic great, the basic JEE application server functionality remains - and ADF is not excluded.

Quick! Buy now, before the licensing rules change!

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