Weblogic integration kit with VAJ 4.0

Question

Will support be added for the Weblogic integration kit for IBM VAJ 4.0 now
that 4.0 professional is available?
Alex Garrison

Answer 1

Hi,
In VAJ3.5.3 Weblogic Bridge documentation ...
The docs/userguide.pdf says that (In service-PAck for Integration-Kit)
Import VAJ35weblogic510spX.zip where 'X' is the service-pack number
BUT...I don't find VAJ35weblogic510sp10.zip Anywhere on BEA site.
Please let me know where to get it from if it is ever available.
How do you upgrade the bridge to SP10?
Thanks,
Harish.
Jim Edwards-Hewitt <[email protected]> wrote:
>
Hi, Alex,
While I'm not in a position to commit to anything official (I'm in
engineering, not PM), I think I can safely say that if the name "IBM"
isn't a problem for us, the name "WebSphere" won't be either. (And the
way IBM is going with slapping "WebSphere" on everything they can so
they can claim more WebSphere sales, they're practially synonmymous.
I'm not working on our VisualAge stuff now, but I did in the past. We
put a tremendous amount of effort into integrating with VisualAge for
comparatively little return, because the VAJ API is so limited, but it
was worth it to do the best we can to allow you to use VAJ to develop
for WebLogic, and not abandon VisualAge users to WebSphere. If IBM
moves to a tool that makes it easier for us to do that and lets us
provide a better user experience, then I believe we'll take advantage
of
it. (And of course, IBM is using tools to try to steer developers to
WebSphere, so if we can make them work well for WebLogic, too, that
helps us as well as benefiting developers.)
     -- Jim
Alex Garrison wrote:
Michael,
I will certainly do so, and I will ask the other developers here todo so as
well. However, since IBM is phasing out VAJ in favor of a WSW-basedIDE,
and since WSW is open source/open API, perhaps this will be a mootpoint a
year from now. BTW: I know that IBM says it will continue to supportVAJ
for at least the next two years, but I dont have to be beat over thehead to
see that VAJ is dying and IBM is moving to the WSW-based IDE.
A big concern in the VAJ community is whether partners like BEA willwant to
remain partners with a product that has the name "websphere" in it(WSW =
Websphere Studio Workbench). I would move to a more platform-neutralIDE
like JBuilder in a heartbeat if it wasnt for the $3000 (oh excuse me,$2999)
per seat enterprise license.
Alex Garrison
"Michael Girdley" <----> wrote in message
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It is being worked on. No ETA yet.
I would encourage you to vote on IBM's Web sites open the VisualAge
APIs
to
partners like BEA.
http://commerce.bea.com/downloads/weblogic_server_tools.jsp
Michael Girdley
BEA Systems
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"Alex Garrison" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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Will support be added for the Weblogic integration kit for IBM
VAJ 4.0
now
that 4.0 professional is available?
Alex Garrison