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A recent editorial in this newspaper suggested that the release of BEA's much ballyhooed AquaLogic product line is little more than a rebrandine of existing products. This view is not incorrect-a lot of the AquaLogic goods are repackaged items. But AquaLogic also contains new features that place it squarely in the ESB arena. AquaLogic is based on the company's erstwhile JMS. It was enhanced with the features that define an enterprise service bus-on-the-fly transformations, content-based routing, security and rules-based data managementwhich move BEA to where it has been struggling to make itself heard: serviceoriented enterprises.
BEA, however, has not neglected its bread-and-butter Java app server, WebLogic Server. Earlier this year, it released version 9.0. This release runs the latest versions of Java, of course, and provides greater integration with other technologies. For example, WebLogic 9.0 can manage Spring Beans from the WebLogic console. (Spring Beans are used within the Spring framework-the enterprise Java framework that is emerging as the leading alternative to J2EE.)
AquaLogic also works with SIPbased servlets for the first time. (SIP, or session initiation...