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Oracle WebLogic Server

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What is Oracle WebLogic Server?

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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What is Oracle WebLogic Server?

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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What is Oracle WebLogic Server?

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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The most common users of Oracle WebLogic Server are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Jayden Nishimura | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
In my experience, Oracle WebLogic is a powerful platform for building various types of applications. We've been using Oracle WebLogic Application Server in our organization for several years now and can say it's a good middleware choice for an enterprise environment. He made extensive use of the capabilities of Weblogic JMS and found exceptional speed and reliability.
  • I love that the weblogic dashboard allows you to manage applications and see the status of each application.
  • Oracle WebLogic Application Server simplifies usage periods in the development and production of business applications.
  • Oracle WebLogic Server allows me to define various aspects of data source entry, including creating a specific multiple connection to facilitate data entry.
  • Performance and administration are highlighted in weblogic.
  • Sometimes it takes forever to start a server.
  • I think the price could be more attractive. I think this product is a little more expensive.
I think Oracle WebLogic Application Server is quite powerful and quite complete. It covers the most important features of the JEE Application Server as well as useful resources related to Oracle. Something efficient for inheritance. Something effective for modern applications. In short: an impressive application server.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use the Oracle Weblogic Application server to deploy both service bus and SOA integration services. We also deploy some Java web and EJB applications on Oracle Weblogic Application servers.
  • Data sources.
  • JMS queues.
  • N/A
The server is very good for deploying Java-based applications. We also build Oracle Service Bus and Service-Oriented Architecture-based synchronous and asynchronous services on top of the standard Weblogic layer. We use the server to create data sources with connection pools and Java Messaging queues which have very good functionality and great control on retry.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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
This is very well suited to be used with web-based applications as it provides immense performance and is a centralized load-sharing solution. If you have multiple applications then this is an appropriate server as it can handle them easily and it is completely flexible and secure. For Images, the configuration part could be a bit hard to handle on this server.
Surbhi Singhal | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
As we are in the Business Intelligence team, we require solutions related to database, management, and delivery. We have used Oracle's WebLogic suite for our customer's development and its solutions. In our day-to-day business, it's needed to have the optimum solution in place to cater to our business requirements. Nowadays Oracle is in demand and we continue to use it.
  • Business solutions
  • Reporting
  • Management
  • Costing
For handing large data on a quicker note we recommend using this application solution but if your organization has a smaller dataset and data load is high then you shouldn't go with it. It requires steady data approaches and management. But we have gained benefits from this infrastructure in recent times.
Sirish Vadala | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
It is extremely well designed and user-friendly in a clustered environment where a load balancer is used to distribute the transactions. It has the ability to communicate well with other systems deployed in different environments. Due to the expense, it is not financially feasible to use for small scale applications where the transaction load is minimal. In such cases, a simple web server or an open-source application server like Glassfish would be more appropriate.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Weblogic will become your choice if you desire complex, important, high available business applications which is tightly coupled with some resources (database, JMS, for example). If you are looking for a light container (especially when you don't need EJB), and also if you have financial constraint, you should choose another open-source product like JBOSS or Tomcat (embedded in Spring Boot also), Jetty (for responsive service).
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
It is well suited for development and deployment and monitoring of complex applications. I have used it in the past for WebLogic integration application deployments and today deploy and run SOA Suites composites from there. It is easy to create and configure resources like JMS resources and data sources and others. It provides a set of logs (server logs, diagnostics logs, admin logs ...) and is very useful for troubleshooting.

I don't have a big downside at this moment. It does its job well.
September 18, 2019

My Weblogic Review

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Oracle WebLogic Application Server for OBIEE. We manage OBIEE application administration using WebLogic Server. It's a web-based application, so all administration is done through WebLogic Application Server. We do a lot of deployments using the WebLogic Server. It helps us to keep our applications up and running.
  • We are able to manage the application and deployments well using WebLogic Server in OBIEE.
  • We can monitor the application health using WebLogic Server.
  • It makes the job easy for our Administrators.
  • User interface can be better - when we go to the application, we have to do a lot of clicking to see all of the things. It would be better of all the data was visible from one window.
  • Performance can be better.
  • It should be able to send alerts in case of server health issues.
It's well suited for Oracle Fusion technologies. Managing applications using Oracle WebLogic Server is pretty easy. However it can still do better in managing the system performance. Oracle can improve the WebLogic Application Server by adding altering functionality in the application and also it can improve the user interface so that any administrator can quickly do the analysis and solve issues.
December 21, 2018

WebLogic - Yay or Nay?

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using Oracle Weblogic server to host various J2EE based web applications for our company websites. We are also making use of clustering in Oracle Weblogic. The application server is hosted internally while the web request is served through a reverse proxy using Oracle iPlanet server. Most of the heavier application are hosted in Weblogic.
  • Stable and powerful
  • GUI is powerful and easy to use
  • Easy to use, simple to deploy an application
  • Cost might be issue
  • Not as lightweight as some other competitors
Oracle WebLogic server is well suited if you want a powerful and scalable application server to deploy a complete J2EE stack app. Due to the heavier nature of the application server, it is more suited for larger applications with heavy usage. If you want to deploy a small app with minimal access from users, a more light-weight application server like Tomcat may be more suitable.
Daniel Pacheco | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.
Big or small companies, Oracle WebLogic Server is the most successful solution in terms of security, robustness, scalability and support.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
I see Oracle WebLogic Application Server being appropriate when an application needs several different data sources and messaging providers configured and accessible, with a configured level of control of resources (connection pools) and timeouts. It is also advisable to create distributed resources that you can configure as always active to provide more processing power, or as failover for situations of availability in case of disaster recovery, for example.
An application where the number of required resources configured is very small and almost non-changeable, and no scalability is required, some other options exist in the market with less cost.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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
It is well suited if you need a stable and complete JEE application server with strong support if ever needed. If you only have non-critical apps to deploy or if you don't expect to have lot of users you should better choose an open source web application server. If your staffing is young they will prefer to use lighter solutions
Ramprasad Kraleti | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Oracle Weblogic Server best serves mid to large scale applications.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
If you have one or two users needing to access the same set of data or process something, then you really don't need to go full core on an Oracle WebLogic Suite. It’s designed for handling a lot of users accessing applications, and supporting high availability/fail-over nodes for web hosted applications. That is where the product thrives. You can configure it to aggregate data from multiple back end data sources, allow users to access hosted applications, filter, route, and host. This is where it shines.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
In the top tear for B2B Java XML Applications - Robust, scalable to > 1,000,000 of B2B Conversations per day (given correct load balancing). Can support with confidence mission / business / trading critical application

Likewise you wouldn't want to run Oracle WebLogic Application Server for a small number of static HTML sites. Essentially not suited to small environments with a trickle of hits per hour.
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