Oracle WebLogic Server

Score7.3 out of 10

120 Reviews and Ratings

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.

Categories & Use Cases

IDE support
Support for a number of different programming environments or IDEs
Category average: 8
Application server performance
Speed of deploy time, initialization time and other performance metrics
Category average: 8.6
Security management
Integrated security management for applications
Category average: 8.4

Administration and management
Ease of management via administration console
Category average: 7.6
Installation
Ease of download and installation
Category average: 8
Open-source standards compliance
Support for open-source standards like J2EE
Category average: 7.7

Most Frequent Users

Top 3 industries using Oracle WebLogic Server.

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#1 most frequent

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

28.4%

1,946 installations of 6,859

#2 most frequent

Finance and Insurance

10.6%

724 installations of 6,859

#3 most frequent

Information

10.2%

701 installations of 6,859

Vijay Dwivedi View profile

Director in Information Technology at Government of Oman (1001-5000 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

As our organization in Sultanate of Oman have all their ERPS in legacy Oracle Forms and Reports, so as and when Oracle have upgraded , we have upgraded databases as required but due to large number of forms and reports it was challenging to move towards new frontend. When Oracle Weblogic Server was released which was supporting our forms and reports, we started to working on that.

Pros

Oracle Forms which were upgraded from 10g to 12c
Oracle Reports which were upgraded from 10g to 12c
Forms and Reports Cluster

Cons

To be frank, it is the Era when Oracle started releasing all their installation files in the form of Jar
Clear instructions were missing to unarchive jar , although it is good that Jar file helped us in Universal installer
Proper documentation were missing so we have opened so many Support call for installations

Return on Investment

The place where i installed were having Government licence with Oracle so pricing was not a big factor but licencing cost is very high
Installation is not very user friendly as compared to older Oracle Applications
Dependency on Java is too much, which is a pain to end users.

Usability

Other Software Used

Oracle GlassFish Server

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (201-500 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Oracle WebLogic Server as our application server for a Java Enterprise application. We run up to 24 JVMs tu support our user base, along with JMS servers to handle asynchronous messaging queues. The application itself is to process Fraud and Disputes claims, as well as Account take over/Unauthorized account access.

Pros

Oracle WebLogic Server JMS has been great for us to handle asynchronous message processing.
Oracle WebLogic Server console has also been great as it makes it easier to manage all our application.
The clustering capabilities also makes it easier to manage deployments across nodes and support for load balancing
Lastly, the full Java EE support has been great, we've been able to install library to extend our applications integration capabilities.

Cons

Debugging issues has been difficult sometimes, the documentation is too dense and finding the the root cause for an specific issue takes time.
The Oracle WebLogic Server console UI feels old and gives a sense of lack of innovation even though it provides so much functionality.
I'm not sure if Oracle WebLogic Server supports more modern frameworks, but it feels more like a Java EE specific, maybe there's an opportunity there to appeal to newer application platforms

Return on Investment

It made it easy to handle over a 100 of deployments across multiple nodes every quarter.
It was easy to scale up our application to 36 nodes as the volume of transactions increased over the years.
Helped us achieve 99.999 availability for our users.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition

Other Software Used

PostgreSQL, Snowflake, Pega Platform

Verified User

Advisor in Information Technology (201-500 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Oracle WebLogic Server can be used in many ways. As a seperate product to develop and publish your web applications on or like in our case it is the "under the hood" engine and platform for one of our key applications that we bought. We still need to update and administer Oracle WebLogic Server ourselves and at that it proved to be a stable product that does it's job well.

Pros

Stability
Good management console
No broken updates

Cons

User friendly interface

Return on Investment

High uptime due to platform stability
Improved product security

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Oracle Database, Microsoft IIS and Apache Tomcat

Other Software Used

Microsoft IIS, Apache Tomcat, TOPdesk

Jayden Nishimura View profile

Digital Marketing Director in Marketing at Nintendo (501-1000 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros

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.

Cons

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.

Return on Investment

In my personal criticism, we believe that this tool does not have negative points of view that limit our work.

Other Software Used

Asana

Surbhi Singhal View profile

Senior Software Engineer in Information Technology at BOLD (201-500 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros

Business solutions
Reporting
Management

Cons

Costing

Return on Investment

It worked for our business and purpose.

Alternatives Considered

Oracle Analytics Cloud

IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform

Microsoft IIS

Oracle WebLogic Server

What is Oracle WebLogic Server?

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