Weblogic is the core of the 11G (10.3.1) Fusion Middleware going forward. Basicially this is laid down on all your tiers (IDM, OID, SSO/OAM and possiblly WEB) If you are playing to deploy Portal/Forms/Reports and or Discoverer before going to WebCenter (this is what you SHOULD be doing) then you will be deploying parts of the AS Portal requires 10G SSO installed which means you will have OC4J on this component. Basically you install Weblogic and then install your components and hook into the WLS administration console. It is a pretty cool console and has some nice features. But being on the first release it has it's shared of bugs and issues that I am working through now. If I were the king of the forest I would wait for version 2 and also go to Webcenter and not try to drag Portal/Forms/Reports along. Leave the technology behind if you can. I was not able to. Most of my issues installing are around 64 bit, Portal, customizations and HA. Of which: 64 bit is always a few missed library links, Portal issues are mostly because WLS support doesn't know Portal and vice versa although Support is quickly ramping up to speed Expecially the folks out in Colorado Springs! They helped me through alot of issues!!!! They are great. Customizations - enough said HA - just complicated. docs were actually good just some missing configs that were not included in the main doc and could be found in some side docs. That's all for now folks. --- On Thu, 11/12/09, Job Miller <jobmiller@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: From: Job Miller <jobmiller@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: Oracle Application Server future direction To: "ORACLE-L" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, oracledbaquestions@xxxxxxxxx Date: Thursday, November 12, 2009, 1:17 PM http://download.oracle.com/products/middleware/oracle-middleware-strategy-briefing-072008.pdf --- On Thu, 11/12/09, Dba DBA <oracledbaquestions@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Dba DBA <oracledbaquestions@xxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Oracle Application Server future direction > To: "ORACLE-L" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Thursday, November 12, 2009, 10:19 AM > I am not seeing anything clear when I > google. I think the "fusion middleware" is based > on the BEA Web Server that they bought. Is oracle going to > use 2 application servers or are they going to phase out the > old oracle application server? > > > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l