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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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  • Application server performance (33)
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  • Security management (32)
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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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Reviewers rate Installation highest, with a score of 8.9.

The most common users of Oracle WebLogic Server are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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October 07, 2019

Great for large projects

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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
For high available and scale necessary application it is a great choice, but for small projects it is an overkill.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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
All in all a very robust product for Oracle application deployments with its ease of use, scalability, packed functionality and scalability.
Ryan Payne | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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
WebLogic is fantastic for building and deploying applications and web services. It offers advanced, scalable building and configurations for a wide range of applications. It simplifies the creation of new products and environments and consolidates the skill sets required to maintain an organization's application domains. It is, however, a significant investment depending on the number of nodes in place and is more suited for large organizations, especially those which have licensing volumes warranting entering an enterprise licensing agreement with oracle.
November 04, 2016

Weblogic, J2EE true Titan

Miguel Angel Merino Vega | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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
if you have a complex J2EE architecture and you ask for performance, go Weblogics. if you need to speed up development times on J2EE architecture, you can choose another alternative. If you use a framework like Spring or Struts in your code, in my opinion it is better to go for something lighter.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
If you need an application server that has zero or small downtime to deploy, that is easy to use with a robust user interface, has great performance, and clustering is being supported for all of the basic APIs, then this would be great for you.
Tom Thomas | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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
WebLogic is well suited for deploying and testing web services or applications. It is best to use it when testing on the actual service or application directly. It separates the actual instance of the service from a test instance. However, this might not be an ideal tool if you are on a low budget as WebLogic is very expensive.
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
For sure it is well suited for higly scalable mission critical services. It is too complicated and expensive for small applications.
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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