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Oracle WebLogic Server is a unified and extensible platform for developing, deploying and running enterprise applications, such as Java, for on-premises and in the cloud. WebLogic Server offers a scalable implementation of Java Enterprise Edition (EE) and Jakarta EE.
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Oracle WebLogic Server is a unified and extensible platform for developing, deploying and running enterprise applications, such as Java, for on-premises and in the cloud. WebLogic Server offers a scalable implementation of Java Enterprise Edition (EE) and Jakarta EE.
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October 26, 2018
WebLogic Features, and some negative points
We are using Oracle WebLogic as our fraud application (Tombeller Siron Suite) and Oracle OFSAA (LFRM) application. The Siron WebLogic system serves all bank financial transactions, like Swift. LFRM is a finance management application. Mainly our finance and risk departments are using this application.
- First reason: it's easy to manage. There are many management services we are using, and this service gives us flexibility.
- Second reason is redundancy. We are using high availibility features for mission critical services.
- Security. Oracle publishes new security patches and upgrades often.
- Licensing model is complex.
- VMware support and certified features are very important, and also whether or not WebLogic supports and is certified to VMware virtualization. We can use more WebLogic systems.
August 31, 2018
In WebLogic we trust!
It is used to provide service to the entire company, we have presence in 12 countries.
We have WebLogic cluster environments for development, testing, production and quality.
The main productive applications are in the areas of: sales (analysis of sales, products, guarantees, sales indicators), marketing (campaigns), and goods and finances. All of these are executed in the WebLogic Application Server.
We have WebLogic cluster environments for development, testing, production and quality.
The main productive applications are in the areas of: sales (analysis of sales, products, guarantees, sales indicators), marketing (campaigns), and goods and finances. All of these are executed in the WebLogic Application Server.
- Cutting-edge technology.
- Excellent quality of manufacturer support through the My Oracle Support website. It has a lot of information about the product, to implement according to the best practices, as well as to optimize the performance in productive environments.
- Stability, security and availability.
- It could simplify the installation process for non-productive environments.
July 02, 2018
My reasons for using Oracle WebLogic Server.
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Oracle WebLogic Server is used in the organization as the exclusive server of the enterprise and intranet applications of the company, and for basic management of CRM for the clients. Oracle WebLogic Server is an adequate support for Oracle SOA and Oracle BPM technologies. It allows the implementation and advanced configuration of applications of all kinds.
- The main power comes to be the scalability of the applications implemented in Oracle WebLogic Server.
- Oracle WebLogic Server allows me to define different points of access to data sources, including the creation of a multiple connection focused on facilitating access to data.
- Integration of very simple applications. Your use of WSLT is fantastic.
- Oracle WebLogic Server is based on a previous user interface. Therefore, it does not include the latest representation updates. Therefore, its domain at the graphic level is much lower compared to other servers.
February 01, 2018
For the real world solutions
My organization is an Oracle partner, therefore we value the use of its products not only in our projects and suggestions but eventually in our in-house applications. Our confidence in the product assures us that we have a robust and well-supported platform for our tools to provide an overall better service.
- The brand relation between Java and WebLogic Application Server usually provides a quicker access to programming features and their availability for the applications deployed.
- The access to centralized configuration both from console and command line WLST eases the implementation of changes major or not in an organized and expedite way.
- The maturity of the product is also visible in the available tools provided by the product itself, for both monitoring of resources and alerting for availability and thresholds
- Oracle could provide WLST with a graphics tool, to ease the scripting especially providing inbuilt list/details of accessible methods/objects
- A visible memory footprint often causes an overhead in the jvm runtime. Maybe too many product artifacts being loaded on boot?
- The console seems to still be in progress; some of the tables even in version 12c aren't customizable and displaying of long lists is often broken when you cant filter.
November 07, 2017
The most stable AS in the world
Oracle WebLogic Application Server is used across the whole organization as the only permitted application server. It allows developers to rely on a mature and stable JEE server known by many java developers in the world. As such, it is easy to find developers having the required knowledge. Secondly, Oracle provides very efficient support if you need it.
- The web interface allows to easily control the JEE features given to an application
- This is the world number one commercial application server in the world that nearly all experienced JEE developers know
- This is the best JEE implementation
- It is heavy compared to JBOSS app server (but it covers the complete JEE stack)
- The weblogic console is sometimes slow and not easy to use (not always user friendly)
- It is expensive
November 01, 2017
Oracle WebLogic Suite Review
We currently use the Oracle WebLogic suite in one of our departments only, a robust application server by Oracle which comes free with the database. Based on our experience with this product, it has been really cost-effective and not a lot of maintenance was necessary.
- Enhanced clustering capabilities with easy deployment
- Surprisingly superior debugging/logging functionality
- WLST(WebLogic Scripting tool) and the WebLogic console are extremely useful
- Out the box configuration might not be ideal for supporting heavy loads (25+ apps per instance)
- There is a learning curve with the tools provided but isn't a big con IMO
December 07, 2016
Oracle WebLogic Application Server - Robust & Reliable
Being a part of the release engineering team, we use Oracle Weblogic Application server to manage and maintain critical aspects of domains, servers, clusters, deployments, security realms, and services of a particular environment. It is used across the entire organization to support applications that run on our environments.
- It is the best application server to host an application across an enterprise. Not only to do you get a summary of your complete environment which includes the servers, cluster etc., you can dig deeper and even find details about individual threads.
- Extremely easy deployment that can be done through few clicks. You can view the state, health and type of your deployment making it easier to debug when something goes down.
- Enriched feature of Security Realms makes it easy to add new users to an environment, tie them to a group, and look into credential mappings.
- There needs to be a graphical tool to develop certain scripts used for maintenance of the environment. It may get tedious to debug the scripts provided by Oracle.
- UI can become even more intuitive & easy on the eyes.
December 07, 2016
Why the heck I use Weblogic Server!!
We use Oracle Weblogic Application Server to host JAVA/J2EE applications, both web and enterprise at US Cellular. It is used by various teams within the information services department. We use Weblogic to host web applications related to Interactive Voice Response (IVR), sending SMS notifications to US Cellular customers, and managing the campaign material of our marketing department.
- WebLogic Server can be best utilized for mid-large sized applications - applications with medium to large volumes of customers.
- Use of work managers - to create specific work management logic for different applications.
- Ability to use single data source vs. multi data source gives us failover possibility.
- Thread management can improve... If we can review the thread performance more clearly on the WebLogic admin console, that would be helpful.
- Store and Forward functionality in JMS - for managing messages SAF (Store and Forward) mechanism isn't working as efficiently as it could. Improvement would help.
- Ability to control node manager from the WebLogic admin console would be helpful.
November 23, 2016
Adopting WebLogic over Websphere
We are currently migrating to WebLogic Suite as our primary application server platform. Previously we were only running WebLogic in conjunction with Oracle Discoverer and Oracle Customer Care and Billing. WebLogic is a powerful application server platform and is already showing increases in efficiency and scalability for us.
- Provides a robust application server platform and standardized skill set
- Provides infinite scalability options
- Easy integration accross the organization
- Allows for advanced configuration and automation of configurations and the creation of new environments
- The UI is not as robust as the tool and lacks some useful fuctionality
- Cost is significant depending on use and how it will be leveraged
- Oracle needs to produce a better guide for getting started
November 18, 2016
Behind the curtain: Oracle WebLogic in the mortgage world.
Oracle weblogic suite is one of our go to middleware platforms at my company. It is used across the company as a whole for hosting various internally developed applications. More than any other middleware hosting platform, this is the one that we use. True, most of the company are end users and are unaware of what their applications sit on, but that back end is Oracle weblogic, with tools like OSB, SOA, WebMethods and in-house applications deployed on top of the suite.
- First and foremost it is (as far as these things go) relatively simple to install. The whole process, for at least a small server set up can take an hour or two manually, or as with our company, about half an hour when run through bladelogic scripts. This is key for being able to stage up new instances on demand.
- Flexibility. You can configure and develop just about any kind of Java web app to be hosted on Oracle Weblogic. That adaptability is important in the industry these days.
- Support. Oracle has an amazing back end support group for any issues you encounter with their products. I make this comment about any Oracle Product I review - their support and ticketing team is fantastic (at least, that has been my consistent experience). Having that to fall back on is a must.
- Error messages. This is perhaps the biggest area that needs improvement. They can be cryptic as all get out sometimes. Then again, that can be a fault for the whole system.
- Backend configuration - sometimes you just don't know where things lay on the backend: where data-stores are located, what directory is this really pulling a deployed file from. There are reasons that Oracle provides (for a fee) training and certification classes.
November 04, 2016
Weblogic, J2EE true Titan
We are currently implementing Weblogic J2EE projects requiring the implementation of application servers for high performance. Weblogic Server resolves us greatly administration and management of the server loaded applications, it allows us to establish opportune diagnostic of application performance and it facilitates the management of database connections.
- Extensive diagnostics of server performance
- JDBC management
- Server Clustering
- Websockets management
- Learning curve. It has lot of functionalities for you to explore.
- Their admin console can be a bit complicated and sometimes does not upgrade things properly
October 25, 2016
Just my thoughts
We use Oracle WebLogic Application Server in most of the middleware tiers for mission critical servlces.
- WebLogic is evolving faster than WAS.
- WebLogic is more user-friendly than WAS.
- Stable
- Easier to manage
- Great support
- Price strategies
- More Virtual product support - WebLogic is a great application that works on virtual environments. I have used it on VMware ESX for many years. There is almost no problem caused by ESX. However when we want to open a problem ticket with the vendor, they always ask about VMware, and they always think that problem is caused by the hypervisor. But it is not! I think WebLogic vendors must start to trust the hypervisors.
July 11, 2016
Oracle WebLogic Application Server
I used it in my internship. We used Oracle WebLogic Application Server (OWAS) in the IT department for easier manageability and performance.
- Manageability - high % less time & effort with administration.
- Deployment & scalability - less effort & time in deployment/production scaling.
- Performance - better performance in application server, even in production environments.
- Clustering is supported for all the basic APIs.
- Deployment can be done in multiple ways
- Farming feature - being able to hot-deploy on one machine will cause that component to be hot-deployed on all instances within the cluster.
- Cost.
- Vertical scaling - if CPUs are added, cost per CPU has to be paid extra.
WebLogic is currently being used by our dev team to deploy web services locally on their machines so they can run and test the services without having to go through a web browser. It enables testing and debugging straight from a developer's local machine in their own development environment of choice. It's a great way to decouple the actual service instance from a dev or test environment.
- Easy to deploy web services and applications locally
- Provides an easy to manage console to control various aspects of the application
- Easy to set up the environment
- Could use more documentation
- A little hard to integrate it with IDEs for testing
- Very expensive
June 13, 2016
Extremely reliable application server
Our company develops services for universities and the web portal development department choose the Oracle WebLogic portal as the reference platform for portal development. Oracle WebLogic helped to address the need for a reliable and easily scalable environment.
- Extremely reliable, if tuned opportunely. Node manager is a very strong watchdog.
- Very user friendly administration console.
- Easily scalable: adding nodes to the cluster is really straightforward.
- Very simple network configuration: only one TCP port for all the needs (http, jmx, ajp).
- SAML support for SSO has room for improvement.
- Not suitable for container (eg. Docker) deployment.
- The learning curve: in order to become an expert you've to do a lot of (expensive) training.
Weblogic is used as a mission critical, robust web server supporting, on a 24*7 basis a user base of many thousands of agents , end users and business critical B2B applications across many contracts and lines of business. Weblogic provides a easy to configurable security, scaleable solution and one that is compatible with a very large number of well known 3rd party applications, standards and platforms.
- B2B Gateways - Support for JAVA XML applications that allow applications to process (without failure) many millions of daily B2B conversations / updates.
- Security - Support for all the latest encryption protocols and RFCs . Handles certificate management / chaining with easy and provides confidence data is sent to / from the server is a trusted and secure.
- Scalable - Can support a few to a huge number of users both as a single node or load balanced in a cluster.
- Applications - Comprehensive support for JAVA applications and publishing of applications using a simple web interface to deploy and manage applications.
- JDBC Connectivity - Very configurable and robust software allowing web applications to talk to JDBC data sources.
- Fingerprint - Can occupy a significantly larger portion of server resources. But there again it does provide a a substantial amount of features / functionality.
- Support - As with most commercial applications bear in mind support (specifically end of life) of the application in 5 - 10 yrs . Oracle will support this but may not have the detailed expertise as their support staff move on. Seems a long while away but this will be mostly used in large IT operations / businesses where applications can sit around for many years before been replaced. Be prepared to regularly upgrade to a newer release.
- Steep Learning Curve - To get the most out of this software there is a significant amount of learning to do. Be prepared to spend of training courses for support staff. LIkewise may take a few months to tune the application to your environment.
February 16, 2016
Maybe the best platform for enterprise application server
The Oracle WebLogic is being used across the whole organization as the main Application Server for both intranet sites such as Customer Support Portal and Employee Relation Portal and of course for implementation of highly scalable and easily configurable Client BSS and OSS solutions.
- First of all - scalability of the solution. It's never been easier to transform a single server into a cluster with tens of nodes when our client's business grows up and performance demand rises up.
- Configurability: hardcore admin can always work with xml config files while you can always provide a couple-of-steps "how-to" instruction to a new-comer on how to operate the Application Server using a quite friendly User Interface.
- Easyness of integrations: just use the magic of WSLT to automate new server farm enrollment.
- The UI, even though it is easy for basic operations, still has a lot of room for improvement when it comes to advanced settings and finetuning, which, you can imagine, are all have to be made in text fields with long, long, very long strings of plain unreadable text with uncountable keys and options