There have been several posts about WLS.... one says it's dead.... one says they are hiring. What is the true story. I would guess it would around as long as on-premise is there. Is it used in other areas? What depends on WLS?
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http://www.adam-bien.com/roller/abien/entry/oraclemovesinstrangeways
Here is a good documented history on where and how WLS died:
http://www.adam-bien.com/roller/abien/entry/oraclemovesinstrangeways
Fusion Apps could totally benefit from HTTP/2 in JEE 8. The user interface and experience is horrific. Its like a web based look and feel of a 3270 app from 1972.
Fusion Apps more or less k–led WLS, along with most of the FMW portfolio. WLS was forced to stop focusing on where the rest of the world was going, and instead cater to FA as the only user that “counted”. TK was obsessed with FA and had no patience for tech that FA couldn’t use. Sadly, FA technology and thinking always was, and still is, a few decades behind the rest of the industry. All resources were spent trying to help FA limp out the gate. Nothing was left over to evolve the platform into something that would remain relevant. It is a shame, because Oracle really should have dominated that market. We had all the advantages dropped into our lap. But instead we squandered all our resources to build a monstrosity ERP suite that is not cloud native, does not scale, full of security holes and bugs, and barley works at all.
Why would WLS pick up JEE8?
Fusion Apps would never pick it up (aren’t they still on JDK 6/7?) and who else is still using WLS and looking for new features?
JEE8 was finalized almost 2 years ago, When will WLS (Weblogic Server) support JEE8? Nearly all the other current competitors have an offering. IBM JEE8 support is on Liberty. What about Weblogic?... I think she's dead Jim.
This is what happens when you have a tech company driven exclusively by a 90 days to live sales mentality who wants to milk the cow until its dead.It has been like this at O ever since MH rose to the top. He can speak a lot of tech jargon but never invest in real tech development.
JEE and by extension WLS stagnated under Oracle. Innovation was strangled and all was left to rot and decay as trends and technology marched forward. Rather than embracing the concepts of a light platform such as GlassFish, The concept of Open Source was too much of a threat to the sales model. Little did O realize that the industry as a whole was moving in this direction -- to a subscription model vs the heavy software licensing model of old. This is what happens when you have a tech company driven exclusively by a 90 days to live sales mentality who wants to milk the cow until its dead.
"see active https://github.com/oracle/weblogic-kubernetes-operator/tree/release/2.2"
Sure. Now go through the contributors list and find all those whose contributions suddenly stopped in February. Guess what happened to them?
Where is Carl Icahn? I bet he is super P1$$ed at how Larry squandered the value that was locked up in BEA. Hat tip to you Carl -- you visionary!
see active https://github.com/oracle/weblogic-kubernetes-operator/tree/release/2.2
OC4J licensed from Orion was actually a nice little container. It was the over engineered Oracle App Server that it got rolled into that was a disaster
The only thing WLS is better than is what it replaced, Oracle's own OC4J. Nobody builds backend servers that way any more.
1awr, WLS is still not ported to be OCI native, it laming on PSM. The only new development which is leamping along for WLS is the control operator for kubernetes that is being developed on github, and even that is now dead since almost who was working on it is layed off, here you go: https://github.com/oracle/weblogic-kubernetes-operator last commit 22 days ago.
Oracle made strategic mistakes with solaris, Java ee and now Java SE and many other products. Imagine the openAccess and OpenAM that was sun open sourced products are now topping oracle access management suite, being developed by https://www.forgerock.com and some former sun people.
Yes, arrogance and deceit is turning almost all customers away and k--ling technical excellence that still exist at oracle.
Far from dead. The team is hiring and innovating.
There is some incredible technology in the works, stay tuned.
Interestingly enough the revenue of WLS dwarfs OCI.
Anyone who has WLS will need to stay with it for a time since it is hard to breakdown the beasts that are usually running on WLS. Nobody new is going to start/port anything to WLS. The time for behemoth application servers is over. SpringBoot, Vert.X and so are are way more organised and easy to scale, given correct architecture, than WLS based applications.
ORACLE put WLS in the backburner few years ago. Just imagine being oracle owner of Java and your bleeding edge application server requires version of Java that was released 5 years ago and reached its end of public update in january.
The whole dumping of the Java EE to eclipse foundation shows that oracle is no longer committed to Java EE as they are smart enough that its time has passed when Sun/ORACLE ruined it up with long release cycle after Java EE 5 more or less.
No one wants WLS when tomcat is free