Oracle launches WebLogic Server 12c, a major revision of the company's Java app server with enhancements to better support cloud computing.

It also will keep supporting the WebLogic Server Java application server it acquired from BEA Systems a decade ago, and Java EE 8 will be supported in an upcoming upgrade to WebLogic Server.

Oracle WebLogic Server 12c is being billed as the corner stone of the company's Cloud Application Foundation and a core component of its Oracle Fusion Middleware product line.

Oracle has released a rare out-of-band patch for a remote code-execution flaw in several versions of its WebLogic server.

CVE-2020-2883 was patched in Oracle's April 2020 Critical Patch Update - but proof of concept exploit code was published shortly after.

For the new release of its WebLogic, Oracle has tailored the enterprise Java application server so that it can be used more easily in cloud deployments.

WebLogic app server becomes core Java container and SOA is emphasized as Oracle meshes its technologies with those acquired in the BEA merger Oracle presented on ...