BEA WebLogic Server Process Edition 8.5™

BEA WebLogic Server Process Edition™ provides you with the technologies and tools you need to effectively service-enable your existing resources, create composite services using process-driven development, and extend these composite services to interact with other applications and technologies. Achieve rapid results by employing simple component interfaces that represent the resources being integrated; use over a dozen pre-built controls provided out-of-the-box, including databases, Web services, files, human interactions, and user interfaces. Data transformation functionality allows you to Visually translate between XML and non-XML messages, including legacy formats such as EDI and COBOL Copybooks.

This Web site provides access to the information you need to install and use the features of WebLogic Server Process Edition to boost efficiency with an environment for quickly modeling, automating, and analyzing business processes from end to end.

WebLogic Server Process Edition is built on WebLogic Server and has the same code base as WebLogic Platform, therefore, most of the information you need is found in WebLogic Platform, WebLogic Server, and WebLogic Integration documents. This page provides a quick reference to the key topics.

Overview

Key Features

Getting Started

WebLogic Platform Topics

WebLogic Server Topics

Glossary

WebLogic Platform Glossary

Other Sources of Information

Guidelines

When to Use WebLogic Server Process Edition—WebLogic Server Process Edition is a good fit for long-running process-driven applications and for projects that require the rapid development of composite Web applications. It is also an excellent tool for the service-oriented development of Web applications and Web service orchestration.

When to Upgrade WebLogic Server to WebLogic Server Process Edition—Upgrade from WebLogic Server to WebLogic Server Process Edition if you need to rapidly reduce the time taken to build out complex process driven business logic. The process engine and framework provide support for functionality such as state management, asynchronous message correlation, data mapping, parallel execution, timeouts, enhanced transaction support, monitoring, and management.