WebLogic EmbeddedLDAP's MasterFirst Attribute saved my day!

August 10th, 2009 by sghattu

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. Read the rest of this entry »

Managing your builds, tests and other external processes with Hudson

August 6th, 2009 by sghattu

Recently I started looking at Hudson to automate our builds, tests and automatic provisioning of environments. Read the rest of this entry »

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

August 4th, 2009 by sghattu

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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Bizarre ant failure – Unknown argument: -cp

August 2nd, 2009 by sghattu

Recently I started running into this weird ant error that was causing a lot of our builds fail. Read the rest of this entry »

My takeaways from Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g Forum

July 29th, 2009 by sghattu

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. Read the rest of this entry »

Can WebLogic 10.3 run on JDK 1.4?

July 29th, 2009 by sghattu

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. Read the rest of this entry »

Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g Forum

July 27th, 2009 by sghattu

This should be a good source of Information about Oracle WebLogic Suite 11g on July 29, 2009 in Bridgewater,NJ. I am planning on attending this.
Agenda

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Default protocol in WebLogic and why is it important

July 26th, 2009 by sghattu

If your WebLogic Server makes outbound connections to other systems it is wise to know what a DefaultProtocol is. Generally, when you create a WebLogic domain and haven’t configured SSL you will not have to do anything. Read the rest of this entry »

WebLogic Clustering with Unicast

June 4th, 2009 by sghattu

Until WebLogic 9.2 the only communication mode available between the Cluster members of your WebLogic domain is ‘Multicast’. Starting with WebLogic 10.0, Oracle in addition to MultiCast, supports communication between the Cluster members using Unicast. Quick definitions of Unicast and Multicast from Wikipedia.

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WebLogic StartupClass equivalent in WebSphere

March 2nd, 2009 by sghattu

I have been working on writing some tools that will simplify the configuration and management of WebSphere Server and Portal. Read the rest of this entry »