The Workshop for WebLogic Platform (Workshop for WebLogic) and WebLogic Portal 9.2 open Beta release are available to the public on bea.com.
Download Beta 9.2 here.
Portal 9.2 provides:
- A WorkShop development environment based on Eclipse
- Content Management enhancements including a WYSIWYG editor
- Improved Federation and Production Ops capabilities
- The GroupSpace collaborative application and framework
Documentation for Beta 9.2:
- WebLogic Portal: http://edocs.bea.com/wlp/docs92
- Workshop for WebLogic: http://edocs.bea.com/workshop/docs92
- WebLogic Platform: http://edocs.bea.com/common/docs92
As a public beta, BEA will not offer support through the BEA Support group. Use the following newsgroups to log and discuss issues:
- Workshop for WebLogic newsgroup: http://forums.bea.com/bea/forum.jspa?forumID=600000011
- WebLogic Portal newsgroup: http://forums.bea.com/bea/forum.jspa?forumID=600000012
- WebLogic Platform newsgroup (if you are unsure whether the issue belongs to WebLogic Portal or WebLogic Workshop): http://forums.bea.com/bea/forum.jspa?forumID=600000013
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BEA Workshop for WebLogic Platform and WebLogic Portal Beta 9.2 (20 messages)
- Posted by: Thomas Yip
- Posted on: April 04 2006 00:39 EDT
Threaded Messages (20)
- BEA Workshop for WebLogic Platform and WebLogic Portal Beta 9.2 by Enrique Quinteros on April 05 2006 15:35 EDT
- More POC from BEA by Elmira Fudd on April 05 2006 16:59 EDT
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Turkeys by Elmira Fudd on April 05 2006 05:18 EDT
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Turkeys by Bill Roth on April 05 2006 06:50 EDT
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Two different products by Bj??rn Caroll on April 06 2006 04:06 EDT
- Two different products by Bill Roth on April 06 2006 03:07 EDT
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Two different products by Bj??rn Caroll on April 06 2006 04:06 EDT
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Turkeys by Bill Roth on April 05 2006 06:50 EDT
- Upgrade is supported by Thomas Yip on April 05 2006 06:18 EDT
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Turkeys by Elmira Fudd on April 05 2006 05:18 EDT
- Screenshots of Weblogic Portal 9.2 (GroupSpaces) by Vineet Bhatia on April 05 2006 18:42 EDT
- More POC from BEA by Elmira Fudd on April 05 2006 16:59 EDT
- BEA Workshop for WebLogic Platform and WebLogic Portal Beta 9.2 by Masoud kalali on April 05 2006 17:32 EDT
- RE: Deployoment to other servers by Thomas Yip on April 05 2006 18:33 EDT
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RE: Deployoment to other servers by Masoud kalali on April 06 2006 05:29 EDT
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Proprietary versus Open by Elmira Fudd on April 06 2006 09:14 EDT
- Proprietary versus Open by Chris Hogue on April 06 2006 11:22 EDT
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Proprietary versus Open by Elmira Fudd on April 06 2006 09:14 EDT
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RE: Deployoment to other servers by Masoud kalali on April 06 2006 05:29 EDT
- BEA Workshop for WebLogic Platform and WebLogic Portal Beta 9.2 by Alex Toussaint on April 06 2006 11:52 EDT
- RE: Deployoment to other servers by Thomas Yip on April 05 2006 18:33 EDT
- Workshop 9.2 and Server 8.1 by Simon Park on April 06 2006 03:21 EDT
- BEA Workshop for WebLogic Platform and WebLogic Portal Beta 9.2 by Masoud kalali on April 09 2006 10:18 EDT
- BEA Workshop for WebLogic Platform and WebLogic Portal Beta 9.2 by Masoud kalali on April 09 2006 15:57 EDT
- Re: BEA Workshop for WebLogic Platform and WebLogic Portal Beta 9.2 by Ren Li on June 05 2006 10:28 EDT
- Screenshots by Thomas Yip on April 10 2006 19:38 EDT
- BEA Workshop for WebLogic Platform and WebLogic Portal Beta 9.2 by Masoud kalali on April 09 2006 15:57 EDT
- Based on Eclipse but no OS X support? by Joe Chavez on June 05 2006 15:47 EDT
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BEA Workshop for WebLogic Platform and WebLogic Portal Beta 9.2[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Enrique Quinteros
- Posted on: April 05 2006 15:35 EDT
- in response to Thomas Yip
It will be great if you post some screenshots before, to see the differences between version 8.1 and 9.2b, visual differences i mean. -
More POC from BEA[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Elmira Fudd
- Posted on: April 05 2006 16:59 EDT
- in response to Enrique Quinteros
What about those of us stuck with the 8.1 version of Porkel server? -
Turkeys[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Elmira Fudd
- Posted on: April 05 2006 17:18 EDT
- in response to Elmira Fudd
Workshop was such a turkey why would anyone bother with your Eclipse plugin -
Turkeys[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Bill Roth
- Posted on: April 05 2006 18:50 EDT
- in response to Elmira Fudd
Because its completely re-written on top of Eclipse. Give the released version a try as well:
http://workshopstudio.bea.com/downloadNitroX.do -
Two different products[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Bj??rn Caroll
- Posted on: April 06 2006 04:06 EDT
- in response to Bill Roth
Because its completely re-written on top of Eclipse. Give the released version a try as well:http://workshopstudio.bea.com/downloadNitroX.do
The product that you link to is not the same as BEA Workshop for WebLogic Platform. Workshop studio is a product BEA bought and rebranded. BEA Workshop for WebLogic Platform is a remake (into Eclipse) of the Workshop bundles with WLP 8.1 -
Two different products[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Bill Roth
- Posted on: April 06 2006 15:07 EDT
- in response to Bj??rn Caroll
Truth in advertizing: Your point about them being 2 different products is accurate. We are in the process of merging the two code lines. This takes time and we're working on it. Right now, they both come in the same package.
It is also accurate to say that Workshop for WebLogic is the same technology we offered in 8.1 but on Eclipse. We've also updated it, and spent a lot of time making sure that the upgrade works.
For more info, see:
http://wlp.bea.com/wlw%5Fwlp%5Fbeta92/ -
Upgrade is supported[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Thomas Yip
- Posted on: April 05 2006 18:18 EDT
- in response to Elmira Fudd
The project models of Workshop 8.1 and Eclipse WTP are entirely different. It is not possible to run the original projects directly. But, we provided wizard to upgrade your 8.1 apps. A lot of effort was put into the upgrade area.
To launch the upgrade wizard, goto
File -> Import... -> Workshop 8.1 Application
Let us know your experience with upgrade.
(the forum will be the best place for it) -
Screenshots of Weblogic Portal 9.2 (GroupSpaces)[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Vineet Bhatia
- Posted on: April 05 2006 18:42 EDT
- in response to Enrique Quinteros
It will be great if you post some screenshots before, to see the differences between version 8.1 and 9.2b, visual differences i mean.
Here are some screenshots of WLP 9.2 GroupSpaces -
BEA Workshop for WebLogic Platform and WebLogic Portal Beta 9.2[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Masoud kalali
- Posted on: April 05 2006 17:32 EDT
- in response to Thomas Yip
some quick questions
do you support jsr-168 portlet development ?
do you support deployment on other servers or just your own wls ?
Thanks -
RE: Deployoment to other servers[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Thomas Yip
- Posted on: April 05 2006 18:33 EDT
- in response to Masoud kalali
Yes. We support deployment to other servers. We utilized WTP's server adapter architecture and project model.
Out of the box support includes Tomcat and other open source app servers, which carried from WTP.
We are the main contributor to the Project Facet area in WTP, which makes it easy for a developer to create projects that can be deployed into all compliant servers, or create projects with advanced server specific features. In fact, our web/ear projects are created using the standard project creation wizards. -
RE: Deployoment to other servers[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Masoud kalali
- Posted on: April 06 2006 05:29 EDT
- in response to Thomas Yip
Thank for clear answer.
What about portlets ?
does it support jsr-168 , will it use pluto as test driver or we should bear the heavy BEA portal for testing purpose ?
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Proprietary versus Open[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Elmira Fudd
- Posted on: April 06 2006 09:14 EDT
- in response to Masoud kalali
The jpf, jcx and jcs files were a bit of an abomination, especially because the IDE handled Java so poorly and I couldn't use Eclipse with them. Are you going to get rid of these and simply use metadata to mark these instead of the file extension?
Also, now that you use Eclipse can I assume that you handle packaging in a more sensible manner? For instance you can link Eclipse projects that create jars etc. to your projects in Eclipse, will Portal projects use this rather than having to make a hierarchical structure for subprojects? This was a major headache.
I am also extremely interested in moving away from the proprietary struts based jpf to JSR-168 portlets, is the support for the 168 portlets better in terms of productivity versus the old Workshop and will it convert from a jpf to a 168 portlet?
Finally, can I now deploy to JBoss? -
Proprietary versus Open[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Chris Hogue
- Posted on: April 06 2006 11:22 EDT
- in response to Elmira Fudd
Yes, 9.2 does away with the custom file extensions in favor of .java for all java files (the upgrader takes care of this change for you if moving up from 8.1).
All metadata now uses standard Java 5 annotations. A lot of effort was spent in this release adding additional annotation features into the Eclipse JDT to provide first-class support for meta-data based development (these enhancements are not proprietary and are available in open-source).
Regarding the project structure, 9.2 is based on the Eclipse WTP project so the project structure follows what you see there. You'll be able to create dependencies from web projects to standard java projects so those classes are available to your web project, for example. The structure of projects overall is more flexible including how and where you place java source folders.
Hope this helps, and send any other questions along. -
BEA Workshop for WebLogic Platform and WebLogic Portal Beta 9.2[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Alex Toussaint
- Posted on: April 06 2006 11:52 EDT
- in response to Masoud kalali
WebLogic Portal supports JSR 168 portlets since the release of WebLogic Portal 8.1. Best Regards, --alex -
Workshop 9.2 and Server 8.1[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Simon Park
- Posted on: April 06 2006 03:21 EDT
- in response to Thomas Yip
Is it possible to use the new workshop 9.2 to deploy to server 8.1? -
BEA Workshop for WebLogic Platform and WebLogic Portal Beta 9.2[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Masoud kalali
- Posted on: April 09 2006 10:18 EDT
- in response to Thomas Yip
Can some one post some screenshot from workshop ?
shots that shows how it looks , and what kind of feature it has ? -
BEA Workshop for WebLogic Platform and WebLogic Portal Beta 9.2[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Masoud kalali
- Posted on: April 09 2006 15:57 EDT
- in response to Masoud kalali
What is different between
workshop for weblogic
and workshop studio ?
will this two merge as one in 9.2 release ?
thanks -
Re: BEA Workshop for WebLogic Platform and WebLogic Portal Beta 9.2[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Ren Li
- Posted on: June 05 2006 10:28 EDT
- in response to Masoud kalali
I had the same question. -
Screenshots[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Thomas Yip
- Posted on: April 10 2006 19:38 EDT
- in response to Masoud kalali
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Based on Eclipse but no OS X support?[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Joe Chavez
- Posted on: June 05 2006 15:47 EDT
- in response to Thomas Yip
Are there plans for OS X support?