On Mar 30, 6:42 pm, Brian Leathem <[email protected]> wrote: > In the long term (by Glassfish 4.0), I think WebLogic and Glassfish > will merge into a single platform. Oracle will take advantage of > Glassfish excellent support for modularity to offer WebLogic's > "enterprisey" features up as for-pay extensions to the "WebLogic/ > Glassfish" open source base.
WebLogic is already built on top of OSGI, like all major JEE servers: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/13/oracle_weblogic_roadmap/ I think that in the Weblogic/Websphere world, the actual JEE parts (EJB and servlets and such) are actually the smallest part of the stack. You got messaging products with a gazillion adapters into software products, rule engines, BMP engines, ESB, BI and many more enterprisy thingies, which is probably why Oracle felt that Weblogic is sufficiently different from Glassfish so they can continue to charge $25k/processor for Weblogic Enterprise Edition (2008; this was the first Oracle price and a 47% increase compared against the last BEA price sheet before the takeover by Oracle) and give away Glassfish clustering away for free. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
