Sunday, 3 November 2013

Oracle WebLogic Server fitting into the cloud

Oracle WebLogic Server 12.1.2, which is part of Oracle Cloud Application Foundation, contains a number of exciting new capabilities, such as support for RESTful services and HTML5 WebSockets. One of the features we’re most excited about is what we call dynamic clusters. Dynamic clusters allow an application to dynamically add servers on the fly. This used to have to be manually preconfigured and now it’s automated, which offers a very elastic environment for the applications we’ve been discussing. Also, Oracle WebLogic Server 12.1.2 supports the new Oracle Database 12c release including its multitenancy option, which is a significant capability for developing cloud applications. Assuming that an application is providing software as a service [SaaS], multitenancy means that each organization that’s purchasing that service has its own secure set of data. Typically, it would be very expensive from an infrastructure or management point of view to give each tenant its own database, but a true multitenanted database capability is actually built into Oracle Database 12c. Oracle WebLogic Server works very closely with the database to take advantage of that capability, including taking advantage of what’s called Database Resident Connection Pooling Purdy fuels up for the day with coffee and a banana. IT’S COMPLICATED We need automation of management and simplification of infrastructure and platform just to manage the complexity that is inherent [DRCP], which is a serverside connection-pooling capability that significantly reduces the number of physical connections necessary between a cluster of application servers and a database cluster. 

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