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Automatic deployment .ear file to Oracle Application Server 10.1.3 (OAS) with Ant tasks
0In this post I would like to share an example how to deploy an .ear file with an Ant script to the Oracle Application Server 10.1.3 (OAS). Automatic deployment can help improve the release process. First of all because manual deployment usually costs time of the developers. Especially the lead time will be long if the uploading of the .ear file to the server takes a long time. And mistakes made with manual deployment can cause quite some fixing time.
The Oracle documentation describes the use of Ant tasks for automatic deployment to the OAS. For more information on Ant tasks you can find an URL at the end of this post to the online Oracle documentation for the OAS, version 10.1.3. Versions 10.1.2 and earlier of the OAS have a different method for automatic deployment of the .ear to the server. This happens through a ‘Oc4jDcmServletAPI’ and will not be discussed here.
Below you will find an example script regarding the use of Ant tasks:
<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”windows-1252″ ?> <project name=”XXX” default=”redeploy” basedir=”.” xmlns:oracle=”antlib:oracle”> <property name=”ear.dir” value=”${basedir}”/>
<target name=”stop-app”> <echo message=”Stopping the application”/> More >
The ultimate ADF event of 2012: The AMIS Master Class Advanced ADF – Christmas Special (Friday 21st of December)
0If you are an ADF developer – and The Netherlands are within reach for you – then Friday 21st of December is a day to mark in your diary. On that day, the shortest of the year in our Northern Hemisphere, we present the Advanced ADF Master Class – in the spirit of the holiday season.
The speakers for this master class are a team of seven -
and more like the Magnificent Seven than like Snow White’s dwarfs. Each is an ADF specialist who is committed to deliver an inspiring talk on his specific expertise within the ADF domain. This event is unique – bringing together ADF specialists in a special, intimate Christmas atmosphere – and with Dutch Christmas treats as icing on the cake. The topics are all based on real life experience. The concepts discussed and the approaches demonstrated have immediate practical value. The setting lends itself to up close and personal interactions, discussions and deep dive explanations.
It is a wonderful opportunity for ADF developers as well as application architects to get inspired in various essential areas of ADF, to acquire knowledge and insights that are applicable back on the job and to exchange ideas and experiences with peers – all in a seasonal More >
Most aggravating developer induced headaches for Middleware Administrators
2In recent months, I have had a lot of dealings with middleware administrators, responsible for the management of WebLogic Server and other Fusion Middleware components such as SOA Suite, Oracle Service Bus, WebCenter and UCM. My role is frequently one that allows me to step back a little and observe. These observations made it very clear that not only is middleware administration a challenging task – one that is underestimated in many organizations – it is also one that is frequently made much harder than necessary by actions that developers take or do not take. Developers create the artifacts that administrators will deploy and manage on the middleware infrastructure. These developers can make life easier for the administrators if they adhere to certain best practices in creating and handing over these artifacts. However, out of ignorance, disinterest or lack of time it is unfortunately common for administrators to experience severe frustrations over the work of developers.
I am trying to compile a list of various points of frustration for middleware administrators caused by developer ignorance or carelessness. Below is the list if have compiled so far – with some help from More >
Weblogic deployment using the Oracle weblogic maven plugin
0With the PS3 release of the SOA Suite a new version, 10.3.4, of Weblogic has been released. Amongst others, this release also includes a new Weblogic Maven plugin (weblogic-maven-plugin) that allows interaction with Weblogic from within a Maven environment. As far as I know, this plugin is the successor of the Codehaus Weblogic plugin. That one was a bit difficult to use because it required some other not publicly available Weblogic dependencies which have now been included with the new plugin. Unfortunately, this plugin is not (yet?!) available in any of the public Maven repositories so you have to put it in your own repository. Because of the size (more than 50 MB) the plugin is not included with Weblogic as-is but must be created first just as other weblogic client utilities. The documentation of the new plugin describes in detail how to create and use the plugin. In this blog I’ll summarize them (NB, I assume you’re a little bit familiar Maven).
In summary:
- Create the plugin.
- Deploy it to an artifact repository.
- Use the plugin in your project.
Deploying and running ADF 11g applications on WebLogic 11g
Last week we had some problems with the deployment of our ADF 11g applications on a stand alone WebLogic 11g (10.3.1) server. One of the issues that kept recurring during the deployment was a ClassCastException reffering to the ADFLogger class – that our application did not explicitly use. We got the impression that the ADF libraries that we rely on, somehow reference this internal class. The exception was just the first of potentially many indications of a WebLogic server lacking in ADF runtime readiness.
Here are some pointers as to the things that need to be ready in WLS 11g in order to ADF 11g application to be deployed and run:
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