112 Migrating Applications from WebLogic, JBoss and Tomcat to WebSphere V6
6.1 Introduction
BEA WebLogic Server 8.1 was released in May of 2003 and at the time of writing
this book, it is the latest available version of the J2EE runtime from BEA. Soon
after this book is published, BEA is expected to release WebLogic Server 9.0 for
which a beta version is available today. WebLogic Server has had a long history
since it started as a Tengah product in the late 90s.
During our migration exercise for this platform, we used two different J2EE 1.3
sample applications.
The Trade 3.1 application that we have selected for migration was developed by
IBM for performance testing purposes and does not use any non-J2EE features
of BEA WebLogic Server 8.1. W ...