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Can WebLogic 10.3 run on JDK 1.4?

One of my colleague asked me whether he can upgrade to WebLogic 10.3 from WebLogic 8.1 and not upgrade his JDK to 1.6. Well, my initial reaction was “Why would you want to do that????”. But after listening to his side of the story I did wondered if WebLogic 10.3 is supported on 1.4. His application was built around 5 years ago on WebLogic 8.1/JDK 1.4 and slowly every one in the team moved on to different things. Now due to EOL and other issues (see my post on JDK 1.4 and WebLogic 8.1 EOL) all the the applications co-hosted in the Datacenter would like to Upgrade and he is forced to upgrade also. With limited or no resources how can he pull off this upgrade with out any code changes? Well, lets wish him luck.

Checked with Oracle and offcially WebLogic 10.3 is NOT supported on either JDK 1.4 nor JDK 1.5.

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3 Responses to “Can WebLogic 10.3 run on JDK 1.4?”

  1. sree bodapati says:
    July 29, 2009 at 9:36 pm

    BTW Oracle has a life time support for all the products. So as long as your friend does not plan on updating the application and rebuilding it (obviously there is no resources to do that here) and assuming no chaneg in the usage of the applications itself (transaction volumes), he/she can stay on WebLogic 8.1 with JRockit JVM and/or use the Sun JVM 1.4.2 and purchase the Sun Java for Business option which will enable him to stay on the existing platform for as long as he/she wishes to stay on it.

    If cost is a concern – It may also be wiser to move to a generic open source container like Geronimo http://geronimo.apache.org and then use Apache harmony as the JVM. http://harmony.apache.org/index.html

  2. sghattu says:
    July 29, 2009 at 9:55 pm

    Thanks for the options… :-)

  3. soumyasree says:
    September 29, 2009 at 6:15 am

    Hi,
    Can you also post an example of using the JMS Correlation id in Weblogic – ALSB 2.6.
    If you worked on it earlier , it would be so nice to see a post on it..

    I am trying to handle the asynchronous req- response through JMS using the correlation id pattern, I wasnt able to see the correaltion id for the response , Please post an article with the configurations and a good example which will be very useful to us in understanding it better..

    thanks in advance..

    soumya