WSJ's MarketWatch reported the release to general availability of Oracle WebLogic Server 12c, which it describes as, " ... the Number 1 application server for conventional systems, engineered systems and cloud environments," with considerable enthusiasm. Market Watch celebrated the innovative new capabilities of Oracle WebLogic Server 12c for building, deploying and running Java Platform, Enterprise Edition Java EE) applications and the capability to leverage Java Platform Standard Edition (Java SE7) features in the creation of cleaner, more easily maintainable code.
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Among the many announcements from Oracle at JavaOne 2011 was the news that JavaFFX 2.0 is now available. JavaFX 2.0 is an advanced Java user interface (UI) platform for enterprise business applications and the next step in the evolution of Java as a premier rich client platform. Oracle also announced their intention to submit a proposal to open source the JavaFX platform as a new project within the OpenJDK Community. Oracle intends to initially contribute the JavaFX UI controls and related libraries; other JavaFX components are planned to follow in multiple phases.
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Winners of the 2011 Duke's Choice Award, announced at JavaOne 2011, were chosen for their creative work in developing Java-based technologies. The winners are:
Arquillian Project
Inductive Automation – Ignition
Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) jHome
JFrog
JRebel
LMA
Rockwell Automation
Sodbeans Project
The Netty Project
The 2011 Duke's Choice Awards winners were highlighted during JavaOne 2011 in San Francisco.
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With all the app servers now available (and forthcoming) for Java EE 6, it's helpful to have some expert guidance when deciding which to adopt. This is exactly what Arun Gupta provides in his blog post "Which Java EE 6 App Server: JBoss 6.0 or GlassFish 3.x?" Gupta points out some of the shortcomings in the JBoss app server (no SLA; JavaEE 6 web profile compliance only; minimal documentation), which make it less than ideal for a production environment in his view. An even stronger candidate than GlassFish 3.x, he suggests, is the soon to be released Oracle WebLogic 11g 10.3.4, which promises integration with Coherence, Fusion Apps and sophisticated deployment scenarios.
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Important elements of the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) 6 specification, writes Adam Bien are "Enterprise JavaBeans 3.1 and Contexts and Dependency Injection." EJB 3.1, he reports, greatly simplifies the EJB specification and provides declarative aspects, such as transactions, security, threading, and asynchronous processing while Contexts and Dependency Injection (CDI) provides Dependency Injection (DI) power and flexibility.
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