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May 25, 2023
Robust framework but a heavy and expensive one!
We used this Applicational Server on our on-site infrastructure (production environment) and also in our local machines for development and testing purposes.
Although it is definitely a robust and complete framework with lots of options and configurations you can modify at your own needs, it is also a heavy application to run in your computer.
So we'd often deal with slowness in the build and deployment processes, especially with some IDE integrations such as Netbeans or InteliJ.
Even on our local servers, that deployment process was not always super smooth.
To top that up, we dealt with some security breaches raised with some versions of the framework, so we'd need to keep an eye for those security patches at all times (that was the most severe issue we've had).
Although it is definitely a robust and complete framework with lots of options and configurations you can modify at your own needs, it is also a heavy application to run in your computer.
So we'd often deal with slowness in the build and deployment processes, especially with some IDE integrations such as Netbeans or InteliJ.
Even on our local servers, that deployment process was not always super smooth.
To top that up, we dealt with some security breaches raised with some versions of the framework, so we'd need to keep an eye for those security patches at all times (that was the most severe issue we've had).
- Manual deploys works smoothly and quickly
- Connection pools configuration it's simple do grasp and has lots of aditional options you can enable
- Server management is also easy and quick to do
- Access to logs is quite difficult to grasp, no direct Web access tool to see those
- Difficult to install some security patches and even more difficult to figure out what's the problem and the proper solution (support articles are super restricted)
- Server deals poorly with deadlock situations, no proper warnings are shown on the admin management application
May 01, 2021
High Performance Server
Oracle Weblogic is an amazing application server that is being used by some of the departments in the organization. It easily manages all the critical workloads. Currently, we are using more than 4 WebLogic servers with all having different applications. It is used as a middleware for all our web-based applications.
- Load Sharing and Load Balancing
- Easy Deployment
- Integrated Application console for deployment and other settings
- This requires expensive servers
- Training and understanding this is bit hard
- Image configuration is very length
November 21, 2019
Perfect Application Server
All the applications throughout the organization run on a single platform and are deployed on the WebLogic Application Server. Since all the applications are deployed on the same platform, it makes life much simpler to maintain the servers.
- Built-in diagnostic modules that can be easily activated for a server instance.
- Ease of creating and maintaining multiple domains for different applications.
- Ability to create virtual hosts and targets to which WebLogic Server instances or clusters respond.
- Powerful clustering framework to balance the load on the server instances.
- The domain template exporter needs to be more flexible and able to be imported by a new server installation. It's a tedious task to recreate all the resources when the server is upgraded.
- The administration console can be better designed to be more user-friendly.
October 12, 2019
WebLogic is still a good J2EE full stack container solution
Weblogic Application Server had become the corporate standard for more than 10 years, it is widely used in our IT department, for dev, test and production environment. It is majorly used to host the full J2EE stack web application and back-end solutions (JSP, JSF, EJB). We use many features of the Weblogic, which includes Clustering, Deployment, Environment management, Monitoring, DataSource, JMS, etc. We even deploy a lot of SOAP-based web service and some Jersey-based REST service endpoints in Weblogic. Those applications support the core business from many domains. Even today, our EJB is gradually replaced by microservices and our monolithic web application is replaced by SPA, we still use Weblogic environment to host some legacy but very important core applications.
- Easy to use and configure
- High availability, very reliable and stable (can configure self-healing strategy)
- Very well integrated with the other Oracle product family
- Deployment in the cluster is quite handy
- The Admin UI should be further simplified, the UI design was not too user-friendly— too many options and clicks required, difficult for the new beginners to figure out what they are looking for.
- The admin server becomes the single failure point, although Oracle suggested some workarounds by setting VIP and VHost, it was not quite easy and straight forward.
- Domain replication is hard, requiring a lot of knowledge and scripts efforts.
- Admin will hang if the node manager communication encounters some issues for one or some nodes in the domain/cluster.
- Not able to kill/terminate the stuck thread, the only way is to restart the managed server (JVM)
- License cost is too high, for small businesses.
It is used by most of our clients, they are large scale enterprises and it used primary because of the Oracle and Java support that comes with it. The main business issue that it handles is the all in one clustering and messaging. It is usually bundled as a sales package with Oracle DB and Java support.
- Messaging
- Clustering Management
- Run-time performance
- Deployment is usually a problem. After multiple deployments the server usually needs a restart.
- Logging is poor when it comes to native issues.
- Its console needs improvement. There are several times when it says "done, no restart needed" but it does need a restart.
October 07, 2019
Great for large projects
It is the most trusted Java EE environment across the industry. It has got a lot of tools and automation possibilities. One less known but really useful tool in the stack is the CAT (which stands for Classloading Analytics Tool). I'd recommend the software if you are able to purchase a licence. It really helps the automation with the console and the operations with the admin.
- Operation
- Automation
- Clustering
- Management
- Price is quite high
- There is a learning curve
- Some support is outsourced to overseas
September 20, 2019
WebLogic Server: Very Good Application Server
It is being used by a department. It is used to host applications that provide services for residents of San Francisco. It facilitates integration between my department and other city departments so that customers' service requests can be created, updated and closed. It is highly available and is proven to offer its users top performance.
- I think it is a great application server for developing and deploying applications across cloud environments and on-premise
- Hgh performance, scalability and reliability
- Simplify operations and reduce management costs
- I would like to see only one console if possible instead of having to navigate through the enterprise manager, console and service bus console.
- The consoles are sometimes slow and not easy to use.
- I would like to see thread management through the consoles and be able to deal with a stuck thread without a server restart.
September 20, 2019
WebLogic is rock solid
We use WebLogic for our major ERP systems such as E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft and Ellucian Banner.
- WebLogic on Linux is rock solid. I believe, its main advantage is that it practically does not go down.
- WebLogic has a good admin console and integrates well with Oracle OEM making it easier to manage and administer compared to competition.
- WebLogic is very configurable and flexible in terms cluster or standalone architecture.
- WebLogic cloning is cumbersome. No easy way of creating a new WebLogic server environment as a clone of the existing one, preserving the managed servers and deployed apps.
- Applying PSU often required to remove an existing one-off patch.
September 19, 2019
System Engineer Review of Oracle WebLogic Suite
We use Oracle WebLogic Suite as our application server for development and production deployment. It is also used for connection management and application deployment.
- Starting and stopping the application is easy using the WebLogic console.
- Database configurations can be done easily.
- Easy to add any new configuration param or jar.
- WAR file deployment sometimes tricky.
- Thread dump to read.
- Database's live connection usage.
September 18, 2019
WebLogic Server Review
I like the administration console, since it makes administration tasks very easy. It's very easy to deploy/undeploy applications, see the status of a connection, connection pools etc.
- Very good WebLogic console dashboard
- Control all instances of WebLogic servers
- Create some more awareness. It's hard to find WebLogic skill set.
March 27, 2019
Sophisticated and Amazing Web Console but at a price
We are using Oracle WebLogic Application Server for hosting a few Java enterprise applications. Some of the applications are mission critical while some of these applications are lightweight reporting tools. We are using this across multiple projects although in some of the other projects we are also using Red Hat Jboss for the same purpose.
- WebLogic Application Server administration is easy to learn. The Web console is a very sophisticated interface and you will find yourself using web console much more than using the command line.
- Application deployment is easy and can be done entirely from the web console.
- It has great features for performance monitoring and configurations. You can do a lot of custom settings to suit your business needs.
- It includes creation of security realms which you can use to manage access levels for different users within the organization.
- It's cumbersome to diagnose problems with the node server and weblogic machine. We often find ourselves bouncing the weblogic server in events we see issues with node server connectivity with the machine.
- It is resource intensive application and performs slow when you have RAM/CPU crunches.
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
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 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
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.
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