What's New in This Guide?

This preface introduces the new and changed administrative features of Oracle Fusion Middleware that are described in this guide, and provides pointers to additional information.

New and Changed Features for Release 12c 12.2.1.2

The following topics introduce the new, changed, and deprecated features of Oracle Fusion Middleware and other significant changes that are described or referred to in this guide, and provides pointers to additional information.

  • Moving your environment from a test to a production environment is deprecated in this release. It will not be supported in a future release.

    For information about moving your environment from a test to a production environment, see Moving from a Test to a Production Environment.

New and Changed Features for Release 12c 12.2.1.1

The following topics introduce the new and changed features of Oracle Fusion Middleware and other significant changes that are described or referred to in this guide, and provides pointers to additional information.

  • The impact of Oracle Real-Time Integration Business Insight on moving your environment from a test to a production environment. See Table 20-1.

  • Backup and recovery procedures for Oracle Real-Time Integration Business Insight. See Table 16-1.

New and Changed Features for Release 12c 12.2.1

The following topics introduce the new and changed features of Oracle Fusion Middleware and other significant changes that are described or referred to in this guide, and provides pointers to additional information.

  • In previous releases, you invoked WLST from different locations, depending on whether you were using the commands for Oracle WebLogic Server, system components, or Java components such as Oracle SOA Suite. In this release, you invoked WLST from:

    (UNIX) ORACLE_HOME/oracle_common/common/bin/wlst.sh
    (Windows) ORACLE_HOME\oracle_common\common\bin\wlst.cmd
    
  • New move plan properties for Oracle B2B including contacts and identifiers. See Table A-22.

  • The WLDF Watches and Notifications are renamed to Policies and Actions. See Configuring WLDF Policies and Actions for the Diagnostic Framework.

  • Additional FIPS compliance features are added. See Table 8-1 and Table 8-2.