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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.
The best service from oracle weblogic
robust server with great feature set
High Performance Server
Oracle Weblogic Solutions
Great value for the price
Perfect Application Server
Weblogic great product
Carrier grade application server
Binu's review : Weblogic server
WebLogic is still a good J2EE full stack container solution
Thoughts on Oracle WebLogic
Use weblogic if you have the budget and enjoy a good night sleep.
Great for large projects
Test automation insight
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- Installation (34)8.888%
- Administration and management (34)8.787%
- Application server performance (33)7.676%
- Security management (32)7.070%
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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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Support for a number of different programming environments or IDEs
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- 7.6Application server performance(33) Ratings
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(1-25 of 42)Robust framework but a heavy and expensive one!
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
But you would need to keep an eye on maintaining the framework updated quite frequently to avoid security breaches and subsequent severe situations.
If you don't have other infrastructure for test purposes, I wouldn't advise you on having devs and QA installing this heavy application in their local machines, there are other lightweight solutions that would be a better fit for that.
The best service from oracle weblogic
- 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.
robust server with great feature set
- Data sources.
- JMS queues.
- N/A
High Performance Server
- 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
Oracle Weblogic Solutions
- Business solutions
- Reporting
- Management
- Costing
Great value for the price
- Simplified management of development
- solid performance and reliability
- great bug monitoring capabilities
- The integration stand up time takes a little longer than we anticipated
- The automated failover process is a bit slow
- The java fight recorder crashes from time to time
Perfect Application Server
- 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.
Weblogic great product
- Robust
- Stable
- Good performance
- Not easy to install
- Administration could be more simple
- Complex configuration
Carrier grade application server
- Work managers
- JMS
- User management
- Other application connectivity adaptors
- Restart requirement for configuration changes
- Analytics
Binu's review : Weblogic server
- Scalable
- Robust
- Secure
- Better cloud based deployment
- CI/CD internal build tools
- Various DB version connectivity
WebLogic is still a good J2EE full stack container solution
- 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.
Thoughts on Oracle WebLogic
- 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.
- 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.
Great for large projects
- Operation
- Automation
- Clustering
- Management
- Price is quite high
- There is a learning curve
- Some support is outsourced to overseas
Test automation insight
- The servers can be managed with ease. If you know where to find what you need, it is simple to be used.
- At first, the UI is too complex. The vast functionality plays on the contrary to transparency.
WebLogic Server: Very Good Application Server
- 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.
I don't have a big downside at this moment. It does its job well.
WebLogic is rock solid
- 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.
WebLogic may not be a platform of choice for developers that don't have an in-staff WebLogic administrators. It requires a dedicated admin staff and carries a substantial licensing cost. For small development shops the Tomcat product would be better.
System Engineer Review of Oracle WebLogic Suite
- 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.
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It addresses business needs in various departments from finance, to shipping both locally and internationally. We have various operating companies that also use the product in the defined ways above.
- It is a true and tested EE server
- It is easy to deploy and manage
- It is very stable and resilient
- Needs to be brought to the new era of Cloud Native, but Oracle is working thru that.
- It is costly, though for my company that is not an issue due to our partnership with Oracle
- Current versions don't support the latest Java. Rather they are not certified with java 11 though java is also an Oracle product!!
Oracle databases. Since WebLogic has been around for a very long time, there is ample documentation on best practices to use the product, thereby adoption is fairly easy.
- Support for WebRTC.
- Support for SIP.
- Distributed memory cache for large-scale, clustered applications.
- More frequent releases to match the latest versions of Java - it's about three years out of date. You'd like to use the latest language features but you don't know if it's going to work or not! It's on Java 8, and Java is on version 12.
WebLogic Server Review
- Very good WebLogic console dashboard
- Control all instances of WebLogic servers
- Create some more awareness. It's hard to find WebLogic skill set.
My Weblogic Review
- 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.
WebLogic over the years
- Ease of use for new versions.
- Not huge changes per version.
- Easily navigate able GUI.
- Kept mostly the same since purchased from BEA years ago.
- Changes with each tiny version not detailed.
- Soo many PSU’s and security vulnerability.
- BSU difficult to use and patching details not always accurate with BSU and OPatch.
Sophisticated and Amazing Web Console but at a price
- 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.
It is quite expensive though and if you are looking for a cheaper alternative, then consider checking Red Hat JBoss EAP.
WebLogic - Yay or Nay?
- 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