I spent the day yesterday at the BEA Dev2Dev seminar in Tyson’s Corner, VA. A lot of marketing hype was presented among the technical presentations. Basically covered BEA’s new Weblogic 9, and Studio, and how they are “blending” in open source tech. Tomcat is a first-class citizen, with support from BEA. Studio will let you target deployment on any server, not just Weblogic (or Tomcat). Studio is a collection of Eclipse plugins. The demos were interesting, though not technical enough for my tastes. They did show off what Studio can do. I’m interested in trying it out, especially (unlike Workshop for 8.1) since you aren’t (technically) locked into any one server. Once I get to play with it some, I’ll post a note.

I did record the lectures, and I put up the PDF of the presentation slides. See the audio section of this site.