Future-proofed application portfolios, interoperability with existing technologies, and the capability to accommodate and leverage change are all byproducts an organization can realize if it possesses technical agility. The degree to which an organization is technically agile depends on a number of factors, one of which is application infrastructure. This chapter has introduced WebLogic Platform 7 as a candidate application infrastructure that can contribute to an organization's technical agility by providing a single, unified, and extensible standards-based (J2EE) application infrastructure. This infrastructure can be leveraged to develop, deploy, and manage enterprise-class J2EE and Web services applications. This chapter has explained the benefits of considering a single software platform approach and offered an in-depth technical overview of WebLogic Platform's products ”WebLogic Server, WebLogic Workshop, WebLogic Portal, and WebLogic Integration. |