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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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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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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 21, 2019
Weblogic great product
We are Oracle Forms users so we need to use WebLogic. We have almost one thousand users. We are using for they whole company.
- Robust
- Stable
- Good performance
- Not easy to install
- Administration could be more simple
- Complex configuration
October 14, 2019
Carrier grade application server
It is being used as an application server for telecom oss-bss applications. It is also standard application server for custom application. It is the backbone of 100s of telco use cases. Most importantly weblogic users won’t have to struggle with database connection handling, java messaging service, user management and web service throttling.
- Work managers
- JMS
- User management
- Other application connectivity adaptors
- Restart requirement for configuration changes
- Analytics
October 14, 2019
Binu's review : Weblogic server
We use WebLogic Application Server to deploy all our Java based applications. Most of our applications are web based and hence we have most of our code written in Java language and all server side code gets build and deployed on weblogic server across our organization for all internal and external applications.
- Scalable
- Robust
- Secure
- Better cloud based deployment
- CI/CD internal build tools
- Various DB version connectivity
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.
October 11, 2019
Thoughts on Oracle WebLogic
My organization is heavily invested in using Oracle WebLogic. Most of our non-cloud native apps are using version 12.1.3. It addresses our needs for an enterprise-focused server system that keeps constant and frequent security updates with very limited configuration needed. I've personally had no issues using it in my local workspace, and it starts up very quickly.
- Small amount of configuration needed out of the box.
- Enterprise-focused.
- Reliable.
- Expensive, which drives smaller companies away.
- Can't use newer versions of Java with it.
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 18, 2019
My Weblogic Review
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.
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.
December 21, 2018
WebLogic - Yay or Nay?
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
July 02, 2018
My reasons for using Oracle WebLogic Server.
Score 9 out of 10
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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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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