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Sophisticated and Amazing Web Console but at a price
March 27, 2019

Sophisticated and Amazing Web Console but at a price

Amanda Decker | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Oracle WebLogic Application Server

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.
  • Creation of managed servers and application deployments, everything can be performed using the nice WebLogic Web Console.
  • It has great security features which helps managing user access.
  • You would need specialized professionals who have experience working on WebLogic Administration.
Red Hat JBoss EAP is good and open source. We chose Oracle WebLogic because we are using Oracle products like Oracle Enterprise Manager and it's very easy to integrate WebLogic with it. Also, for our mission critical applications, we wanted an application server with great clutering/coherence features and Oracle WebLogic is great at that.
Oracle WebLogic is one of the most sophisticated application servers and is part of the middleware product family from Oracle. It's well suited for medium to high volume transaction applications and can be used on multiple OS platforms.
It is quite expensive though and if you are looking for a cheaper alternative, then consider checking Red Hat JBoss EAP.

Oracle WebLogic Server Feature Ratings

Application Servers
8.7
IDE support
9
Security management
9
Administration and management
9
Application server performance
9
Installation
9
Open-source standards compliance
7

Using Oracle WebLogic Application Server

I would have given it a 10 but sometimes the hogging threads become a issue and needs server bounce. Except that, we are very pleased with the product.
ProsCons
Like to use
Relatively simple
Easy to use
Well integrated
Consistent
Quick to learn
Convenient
Feel confident using
Requires technical support
  • Performance Monitoring and Configurations
  • Creation of Managed Servers and machines to manage system resources
  • troubleshooting issues with node manager

Oracle WebLogic Application Server Reliability

Oracle WebLogic Application Server is great at security, performance and features.

Integrating Oracle WebLogic Application Server

It integrates very well with Oracle products, infact, most of the Oracle ERP products come on top of Oracle WebLogic Server.