Workshop for WebLogic 10.3

Oracle Workshop for WebLogic 10.3 is celebrating independence day. This year, I'm personally celebrating a long awaited declaration: that this upcoming release introduces a complete freedom from pricing, licensing and registration of any kind. Complete freedom for using your favorite dev/test server. Consistent with Oracle's Hot Pluggable initiative, all features of the Eclipse IDE will be freely available on all supported platforms, including websphere, weblogic, tomcat, jboss, jetty and resin.

In addition, JDeveloper and ADF / TopLink runtime users will be supported on Oracle WebLogic Server 10.3, allowing ADF driven application to extend farther into new supported platforms.

Oracle WebLogic Server 10.3 developers who use Eclipse will find updated Workshop plug-ins for developing Java/EE and web services that are bundled with the server:

•Support for new industry standards

•IDE based on Eclipse 3.3 & WTP 2.0

•Support for JDK 6

•Windows Vista support

•XMLBeans 2.3 support

•New Web Services Support

•JAX-WS tooling for Weblogic Server 10.3

•Design/Build/Deploy Support

•Start from Java or from WSDL

•JAX-B support with new JAX-B Wizard

•Create JAX-B types from schema

•Generate ant snippets

•New ClientGen Wizard

•Create Web Service Clients from JAX-RPC & JAX-WS Web Services

•Generate ClientGen ant snippets

•Updated JAX-RPC support for Weblogic 10.3

•Support for EE5 Standards

•New EE5 Project Creation

•Create EE5 EAR and EJB Projects

•Create Web Applications based on new standards

•Servlet 2.5

•Full support for new Servlet spec, including optional web.xml

•JSP 2.1, JSF 1.2, JSTL 1.2

•Updated wizards and tag support for new standards (SunRI and Apache myFaces)

•WYSIWYG and AppXRay support for Universal Expression Language

•New Weblogic Server Value Add

•Full Deploy/Debugging support for WLS 10.3

•Continued backward compatibility for WLS 8.1, 9.2, 10.0

•Remote Deployment

•Supports WLS 9.2, 10.0, and 10.3

•Support for new WLS Fast Swap

•New Editors and Wizards for Weblogic Server Deployment Descriptors

•Application upgrade tools for older versions of Weblogic