Author: Michel Schildmeijer

In an previous post I discussed the stop start automated mechanism already, but now I developed a procedure how to automatically startup a complete Oracle SOA Suite 11g after …

Recently I did an audit on a WebLogic 11g platform of one of our customers. There were many problems with the availability of their JAVA Applications. Some of the …

Creating a EIS ConnectionFactory in your Database Adapter can be done with the WebLogic Administration Console, but of course this is also “scriptable”. What I needed was a script …

Where as in WebLogic 11g JPA was not support by default, in WebLogic 12c it is the default persistency provider.JPA 2.0 is part of JAVA EE 6. I was …

I collected some Q&A for you during the WebLogic 12c launch so here they are

At December the 1st, 2011, Oracle announced it’s new major release, the 12c release. As Oracle added the i (internet) at its 8 release, the g(gridcomputing) at its 10 …

Yesterday I received the announcement of the new Oracle WebLogic 12c, on the 1st of December 2012. You can register for a webcast on https://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/EventLobbyServlet?target=registration.jsp&eventid=375727&sourcepage=register So, what’s there to …

Some people were asked to review my book, here are some links: Edwin Biemond http://www.amazon.com/Oracle-Weblogic-Server-11gR1-Administration/dp/1849683026/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1320912495&sr=8-5 Jurgen Kress https://weblogiccommunity.wordpress.com/2011/11/09/oracle-weblogic-server-11gr1-ps2-administration-essentials-book-and-ebook Markus Eisele http://blog.eisele.net/2011/11/review-oracle-weblogic-server-11gr1-ps2.html Frank Muntz http://t.co/ukq1SUx6

Years ago, when I worked as an Application Support Analyst for a big triple-A Bank, I got acquainted with the BEA product stack. One of those products was BEA …

This week, I went on an invitation of my publisher Packt to Oracle OpenWorld, to be present on the launching of my book, Oracle WebLogic 11gR1 PS2: Administration Essentials. …

My book will be presented at OOW, Tuesday the 4th of October 2011, at Oracle’s Publisher Seminar, Hotel Nikko in San Francisco! See here

A great tool within Oracle WebLogic Server is the WLDF ( WebLogic Diagnostics Framework). Before 11g deliverd as an extension, but now integrated into the Console, It delivers a …

These are sessions I will try to follown at OOW 2011. Tuesday I will be present at the Oracle Publishers and Writers seminar. More is yet to come! 09105  …

There are many ways of starting and stopping your Oracle WebLogic 11g  environments, You can stop your Admin and Managed Server Instances through the Adminsitration console, use the the …

Sometimes, you would like to have an extract from a SOA Suite 11g  production environment to test it in a test or acceptance environment. There are several ways to …

One of  the less known products running on Oracle WebLogic Server is OCCAS – Oracle Converged Application Server. During a project at a big TELCO client, I became familiar …

When you’re a newbee to WebLogic, and in this case especially the WebLogic Scripting Tool (WLST) it’s a good thing to explore the capabilities of the WLST by browsing …

It seems like an easy task to do within WebLogic Admin Console, but sometimes an administrator requires automation. WebLogic Server can schedule future tasks similar to a scheduled job. …

Although there are quite some new screenbased application techniques, a lot of companies use the traditional Oracle Forms & Reports. Even with the transition to an entire new application …

Monitoring your Oracle SOA Suite environment, especially in version 10.1.3.x can be very complicated, but if you are using GridControl, Oracle provides you the SOA Management Pack. Unfortunately this …

There are several tools on the market for performance management. There is  for instance JConsole, the Enterprise Manager ( GridControl) but another nice tool to see how your JVM …

Cloud computing becomes ( although it’s cloudy) more HOT in these days. More and more companies provide solutions for their customers which are Cloud based. AMIS as one of …

Along with some other new productreleases like the SOA Suite, Oracle launched the new WebLogic 11g Release 1 (10.3.4). There are many new features available, but one can see Oracle’s …

I was looking for a way how to enable or disable a proxy service within Oracle Service Bus 11g with WLST (WebLogic Scripting tool) Here’s the way I found …

A fairly unknown tool within WLDF(WebLogic Diagnostic Framework) is the DyeInjection Monitor. With this monitor configured one can track a  user or client address within a WebLogic system. You can …

Oracle Coherence is an in memory Data Grid framework, data replication and distributed services.In fact Coherence is a sort of  data store. To test or debug data access code …

Check from Marc Kelderman blog :http://orasoa.blogspot.com/2010/04/aia-2425-foundation-pack-quick-cluster.html We worked together on this manual at Belgacom.

After installing Oracle SOA Suite 10g (10.1.3.3) and logging on to the ESB Control, the following error appears: Designtime cache has not been initialized Please look in logs for …

When thinking of development, one easily think of developing functionality for applications, business functionality and end-users. But how about developing for administrators? Normally a product like Oracle Application Server …

As in my experience at customers, one of the more confusing things of a WebLogic  Server environments is the NodeManager. So, what is the NodeManager and what does it …

It´s possible to map your Oracle WebTier environment to multiple servers that host applications like ADF, SOA Suite or UCM This is the way how to do it: To …

After installing Oracle SOA Suite 11.1.1.2 en upgrade afterwards to 11.1.1.3 puts the soa-infra application on warning. You can see this in the WebLogic console under Deployments. Why is …

When you configure yor domain in WebLogic 11g, by screen install or by scripts, when you choose Production Mode security will be more strict as in Development Mode. Normally …

Ever wondered what to find in which directoy, in for example an Oracle SOA Suite 11g installation? (patchset 2) Well, here´s the general rule: – The toplevel layer –> Called the …

Here an simple example how to monitor if your AdminServer and managed servers are up and running with WLST Run it with $WL_HOME/ common/bin/wlst.sh -loadProperties <property_file> <script_name>    ($WL_HOME is …