Foreword

When I joined the WebLogic founders in 1996, it was a small company with some excellent JDBC drivers and a rudimentary Java server with events, servlets, rowsets, and remoting. This book describes the culmination of the original vision: to create a distributed systems development platform in Java that would replace the existing enterprise infrastructure. Even one of our first advertising slogans now appears prophetic: “Elevating Java to the Enterprise.”

Although WebLogic was acquired in 1998 by BEA Systems, the WebLogic Server engineers share a special bond with one another and with their product. This explains the extremely small attrition in the engineering organization and why the product has such continuity from release to release. ...

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