Oracle WebLogic Server 12c(C is for Cloud ready)

Oracle Weblogic 12c implements the Java EE6 standardsJSF 2.0

Java Servlets 3.0

JPA 2.0

EJB 3.1

JAX-RS

Managed Beans 1.0

Support for Java SE7(and Java SE6)

Development support in Oracle Weblogic 12c

Eclipse, NetBeans, Jdeveloper,IntelliJ

Enhanced Weblogic Maven plugin

Zip distribution can be used to configure domain

Built-in GlassFish descriptor recognition for easy re-deployment

Configuration and Tooling

Provides upgrades from iAS with automated tooling.

GlassFish redeployment with a built-in GlassFish descriptor recognition for re-deployment to Weblogic server

Jboss and Websphere with migration services

GridLink support which uses fast connection failover for faster RAC failure detection

Performance and Failover

Parallel Muxers with Java NIO APIs for I/O base operations

Optimized work scheduler providing improvements to the increment advisor to manage the size of Weblogic Servers self-tuning thread pool

Lazy de-serialization of session data

Multiple replication channels for synchronous in-memory session replication between servers in a cluster

Enhanced high availability and disaster recovery

Enterprise Manager 12c

Navigate the middleware routing topology

Customize middleware performance summaries

End-toend performance management

Use the middleware diagnostics to size JDBC connection pool.

Deploy a Java EE application

Manage SOA suite

Manage Coherence

Distributed Chaching

ActiveCache integration for JPA used in Weblogic server.

Coherence clusters have their own Mbeans within WLS