Weblogic Application Server versions and difference between Weblogic 10g & 11g & 12c

Weblogic Application Server Versions:

  • WebLogic Server 12cR2 (12.2.1.2) – October 2016 [1]
  • WebLogic Server 12cR2 (12.2.1.1) – June 2016 [2]
  • WebLogic Server 12cR2 (12.2.1) – October 26, 2015[3]
  • WebLogic Server 12cR1 (12.1.3) – June 26, 2014[4]
  • WebLogic Server 12c Release 2 (12.1.2) – July 11, 2013 [4]
  • WebLogic Server 12c Release 1 (12.1.1) – Dec 1, 2011 [5]
  • WebLogic Server 11gR1 PS5 (10.3.6) – February 26, 2012 [6]
  • WebLogic Server 11gR1 PS4 (10.3.5) – May 16, 2011 [7]
  • WebLogic Server 11gR1 PS3 (10.3.4) – January 15, 2011
  • WebLogic Server 11gR1 PS2 (10.3.3) – April 2010 [8]
  • WebLogic Server 11gR1 PS1 (10.3.2) – November 2009
  • WebLogic Server 11g (10.3.1) – July 2009
  • WebLogic Server 10.3 – August 2008 [9]
  • WebLogic Server 10.0 – March 2007 [10]
  • WebLogic Server 9.2
  • WebLogic Server 9.1
  • WebLogic Server 9.0 – November 2006 [11]
  • WebLogic Server 8.1-bea – July 2003 [11]
  • WebLogic Server 7.0 – June 2002 [12]
  • WebLogic Server 6.1
  • WebLogic Server 6.0 – file date March 2001 on an old CD [13]
  • WebLogic Server 5.1 (code name: Denali) First version supporting hot deployment for applications (via command line)
  • WebLogic Server 4.0
  • WebLogic Tengah 3.1 – June 1998 [14]
  • WebLogic Tengah 3.0.1 – March 1998 [15]
  • WebLogic Tengah 3.0 – January 1998 [16]
  • WebLogic Tengah – November 1997 [17]

Major Difference with every release is with the supported standards, Below are some key supported technologies & their supported versions with weblogic:

Standard WLS 6.1 WLS 7.0 WLS 8.1 WLS 9.0 WLS 10.0 WLS 10.3 WLS 11g WLS 12c WLS 12cR2
Java 1.3 1.3 1.4 5 5 6 6 (7 from 10.3.6) 7 (8[23]) 8
Java EE 1.3 1.3 1.3 1.4 5 5 5 6 7
Servlet 2.2 & 2.3 2.2 & 2.3 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.5 2.5 3.0 3.1
JSF – | – 1.2 & 2.0 2.0 2.1 2.2
JSP 1.2 1.2 1.2 2.0 2.1 2.1 2.1 2.2 2.3
EJB 1.1 & 2.0 2.0 2.0 2.1 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.1 3.2
JDBC 2.0 2.0 2.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 4.0 4.0 4.0
JPA ?  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?  ? 2.1 2.1

Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_WebLogic_Server

 

the biggest difference is that the versions have updated support for the latest J2EE specifications & bug fixes/new features, 12c supports Java EE 6 & JDK7, 12c R2 supports Java EE 7 & JDK8

 

11g

>Platform specific installers available

>Jdk bundled with 32bit installers

>Bsu patching utility for bug fixes/patches

>Webserver plugins are bundled with WLS installer

>Static Clusters

>Machine specific NM

12c

>Only Generic installer available

>Jdk needs to be installed separately first

>Java based utility Opatch is included.

>Webserver plugins needs to be downloaded from oracle support.

>Dynamic Cluster – easily scale servers as per load.

>Domain Specific NM

>CLI/Console mode deprecated. Install via either GUI or silent xml

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