Oracle Technologist of the Year Cloud Architect Award for Frank Munz
Last week I received the Oracle Technologist of the Year Award, Cloud Architect. It makes me feel flattered and it’s of course a great honor for me being on this list of fame together with companies...
View ArticleCloud Computing Workshop 2011: Oracle, Rackspace and Amazon
This year I really kept the best until the end! Last week I was running a 2-day cloud computing workshop with a 2-hour hands-on management presentation the night before the workshop for Contribute in...
View ArticleWebLogic 12c Proxy Plugin for Web Servers is missing (kinda solved)
According to the documentation for the brand new WebLogic 12c the WLS mod_wl proxy plugin for web servers should be located under the following location: $WL_SERVER/server/plugin and this is where the...
View ArticleWebLogic 12c: Node Manager Best Practices
During the last couple of years (and the last couple of WebLogic versions) I collected a number of best practices regarding WebLogic nodemanager. All of them hold true for WebLogic 12c as well. This...
View ArticleWebLogic Deployment: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions
Here is a number of answers to many question that typically pop up when explaining WebLogic deployment concepts What is the difference between staged deployment and non-staged deployment? You maybe...
View Articlelocalhost is mostly wrong (btw that’s why it’s called Distributed System)
According to a post of Oracle’s A-Team, you can accelerate the startup of WebLogic when configuring “localhost” as ListenAddress. My comment on their posting isn’t enabled yet, so I will share some...
View ArticleWebLogic Feature Timeline: What is new in WLS 12, 11, 10, 9?
To whom it may concern, here is a quick overview of the new features as they were included in WebLogic Server versions 9 to 12c. Destilled for my first WebLogic 12c workshop running a fortnight ago and...
View ArticleWebLogic Stuck Threads: Creating, Understanding and Dealing with them
Using the time off during the bank holidays over Easter I spent some time coding and looking into more unknown details of WebLogic stuck thread behavior. (Actually I started to write this posting...
View ArticleSpicing up WebLogic RESTful Management with Jolokia
[This posting will be part of my upcoming WebLogic 12c book] Management and monitoring of WebLogic resources is a day-to-day challenge for many administrators. Programming a management solution by...
View ArticleRESTful WebLogic Monitoring of Servers, Applications, JDBC and JMS with Jolokia
[This posting will be a part of my upcoming WebLogic 12c book] This article is part II of III. Make sure you read part I explaining the basics of monitoring WebLogic with WLST, the WebLogic 12c...
View ArticleWebLogic Scripting Tool on Capsaicin: j4psh JMX Shell with Syntax...
[This posting will be a part of my upcoming WebLogic 12c book] Kudos Oracle! Over a year ago I mentioned in my Oracle Middleware and Cloud Computing book that developing WebLogic Scripting Tool (WLST)...
View ArticleWebLogic Startup Mode: Development or Production? The (hopefully) Complete...
Let me quickly summarize the all differences between development and production startup mode for WebLogic 12c and previous versions. Information about it is scattered across the Oracle documentation...
View ArticleWebLogic 12c and JDK7 with jcmd Tool
WebLogic is still bundled with JDK6 yet changing to JDK7 is a piece of cake. Install JDK7u2 or later Update the setDomainEnv.sh script of your domain for the new JDK Restart your domain You can follow...
View ArticleAnother Myth Debunked: More than 200 Continuous Redeployments with WebLogic
The other day I overheard the myth that you simply cannot redeploy several times with WebLogic because inevitably you would end up having an out of memory error. Since I am currently writing on an...
View ArticleWebLogic 12c Configuration Management: Change Your Defaults to Track What...
Good morning. I just finished the chapter about configuration management for my new WebLogic book. Here is a very short summary of it. There is a number of default configuration settings that I...
View ArticleWeb Service Development with NetBeans and Testing with WebLogic Admin Console
Developing of SOAP based web services for WebLogic 12c (or any other application server) with NetBeans is a breeze. You can do it without using any templates or IDE wizards, no XML is required, no...
View ArticleEJB 3.1: Stateless Session Bean Deployed as .war, Dependency Injection,...
Development of an EJB 3.1 stateless session bean has become incredibly simple. You add an annotation, there is no XML required at all, no need to implement an interface anymore, and you can easily...
View ArticleAmazon / Oracle Cloud Workshops: Mission Completed
I am just back from a successful, long and intensive trip to Australia. If you are waiting for a reply to an email there is a good chance you will get it soon now. I delivered an Amazon and Oracle...
View ArticleSimple Custom JMX MBeans with WebLogic 12c and Spring
Using the Spring framework bundled with WebLogic 12 the programming of JMX MBeans becomes as easy as writing a simple POJO within a web application. After coding the MBean as a POJO all that is left to...
View ArticleIOPS Quality of Service for Amazon EBS Cloud Storage
Define the pipe! You can now have EBS optimized EC2 instances with e.g. 500 or 1000 Mbit/sec throughput to EBS. According to AWS a standard EBS volume will cope with 100 IOPS on average allowing some...
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