With 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:

  1. Create the plugin.
  2. Deploy it to an artifact repository.
  3. Use the plugin in your project.

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