Archive for the ‘WebLogic’ Category

Old WLST tools

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

As you might know after the acquisition of BEA Systems by Oracle, Dev2Dev site has been discontinued. Unfortunately I don’t see a replacement for that, not only we lost some rich information, but a number of good tools. (more…)

Interview with Jython Lead

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

Just came across this excellent interview with Frank Wierzbicki, who now leads the Jython Development.

Interview can be found here

Find a class in plethora of jars in a directory with JarScan

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

Recently I had to find a jar which contains a java class I was looking for. Previously I was using other utilities like Jarfinder, FindClass etc, but wasn’t very happy.  (more…)

No WLST cachedir with python.cachedir.skip

Friday, September 11th, 2009

In one of my previous post I have talked about python.cachedir and how it may cause some errors during WLST/Jython initialization.
With WebLogic 11g Oracle has upgraded the Jython Version from 2.1 to 2.2 (see my post here), which opens up yet another way of getting rid of these errors. In fact you can get rid of the cachedir entirely by starting WLST with -Dpython.cachedir.skip=true, this will instruct Jython not to create the CacheDir.
I haven’t done extensive testing with this option but so far I haven’t seen any issues by not creating this cachedir.

Jython 2.2 in WebLogic 11g

Friday, August 21st, 2009

I just started playing around with WebLogic Server 11g and realised that Oracle has upgraded Jython from 2.1 to 2.2, very nice!

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Monitoring your WebLogic SSL Certificates is important

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

I was talking to my friend yesterday and he mentioned that he was up all night due to an outage that happened to the WebLogic environments he manages, when asked why?

Expired SSL Certificates!!! (more…)

WebLogic EmbeddedLDAP's MasterFirst Attribute saved my day!

Monday, August 10th, 2009

While provisioning WebLogic environments to a new infrastructure, recently we started experiencing a problem where the Managed Server had problems starting up. It consistently failed with the error shown below. (more…)

How are python.cachedir and the error "*sys-package-mgr*: can't create package cache dir" are related

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

While starting WLST or for that matter Jython, you might have seen this annoying error message,

*sys-package-mgr*: can’t create package cache dir, ‘/tmp/cachedir/packages’
Traceback (innermost last):
File “<iostream>”, line 12, in ?
ImportError: no module named java

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My takeaways from Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g Forum

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

I attended the Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g Forum in Bridgewater, NJ. It was a pretty informational session and I got to talk directly to Oracle management about some questions I had regarding Oracle’s Portal and JVM Strategies. (more…)

Can WebLogic 10.3 run on JDK 1.4?

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

One of my colleague asked me whether he can upgrade to WebLogic 10.3 from WebLogic 8.1 and not upgrade his JDK to 1.6. (more…)