My company uses BEA Workspace Studio for development and has just updated to 11G. I'm currently a PowerBuilder developer making the switch to
Java. Now that Oracle has bought BEA, it is quite confusing to find which product to download so I can become familiar with the development environment.
My workstation at the office has BEA Workspace Studio 1.1 installed. I would like to get a copy of the software to install on my workstation at home to practice and learn.
Can anyone here explain what I need, where to find it, and what prerequisites there are?
I'm assuming I need the Java SDK installed. Beyond that I'm not sure what I need to do. Finding the correct software on the Oracle website is daunting. I'm hoping to have a self-contained development environment to play around in. But not knowing all that is involved makes it difficult. At my company I will be developing/supporting projects that talk to an Oracle database, retrieve data from OMNI mainframe, working with XML, XSL, writing web services, web pages, and other miscellaneous stuff. I'm not expecting to mirror everything but would like to at least be able to interact with a database and web server.
Is this an unusual idea or do most other developers set something like this up for learning purposes if they wish?
I thought I would add that the Oracle website doesn't seem to be very supportive of WebLogic. I mean they bought BEA but trying to navigate on their website for BEA based software is almost non-existent!
Thanks