Weblogic 11g Setup In Windows

Introduction

In this tutorial I am going to show how to setup weblogic 11g in Windows platform.

Steps to setup

• Download the zip distribution from this url.
  Extract the zip into some folder which is goint to be considered as your Weblogic Home
• Lets say I have extracted my zip file into D:\ashish\softwares\wls1036_dev folder so open command prompt (Go to the folder -> Press Shift + Right click -> Open Command Window Here) -> set the following
  • set JAVA_HOME=C:\Progra~1\Java\jdk1.7.0_65
  • set PATH=%JAVA_HOME%\bin;%PATH%
  • set MW_HOME=D:\ashish\softwares\wls1036_dev
  • execute configure.cmd
• Execute the following command: %MW_HOME%\wlserver\server\bin\setWLSEnv.cmd to setup WLS environment in the current shell.
• Create a folder called mydomain inside MW_HOME and cd mydomain folder. Then execute the following command: %JAVA_HOME%\bin\java.exe -Xmx1024m -XX:MaxPermSize=128m weblogic.Server. This will create weblogic domain inside %MW_HOME%\mydomain. You need to set user name and password. Once done, automatically the server will startup.
• Once done hit the following URL from browser http://localhost:7001/console to open the admin console of 11g

Important Note

By default, oracle 11g supports JPA1. To enable JPA 2 in windows, follow the below steps

• Go to your domain path (e.g. D:\ashish\softwares\wls1036_dev\mydomain).
• Copy the following JARs from the %MW_HOME%\modules path into your domain. If not available then download from the internet
  • com.oracle.jpa2support_1.0.0.0_2-0.jar
  • javax.persistence_1.0.0.0_2-0-0.jar
• create a cmd file (e.g. setJPA2.cmd) in mydomain folder (D:\ashish\softwares\wls1036_dev\mydomain) and add the following content

set wls_modules=D:\ashish\softwares\wls1036_dev\mydomain
set PRE_CLASSPATH=%wls_modules%\javax.persistence_1.0.0.0_2-0-0.jar;%wls_modules%\com.oracle.jpa2support_1.0.0.0_2-0.jar

• Execute this script before running startWebLogic.cmd script.

Run server in development mode

• Go to D:\ashish\softwares\wls1036_dev\mydomain\bin folder and open setDomainEnv.cmd then search for PRODUCTION_MODE and set PRODUCTION_MODE=false
• Go to D:\ashish\softwares\wls1036_dev\mydomain and execute startWebLogic.cmd to start the server. Once the server is restarted then you will see the below message

Autodeploy your WAR

• To autodeploy your code, make sure your server is running in development mode as shown above.
• Open admin console and make sure the web application that you want to autodeploy is not already deployed from admin console
• Add the following line in your WEBINF/weblogic.xml incase you are deploying WAR. Otherwise, for EAR, make the same change in weblogic-application.xml file

<fast-swap>
	<enabled>true</enabled>
</fast-swap>

• Build and copy your WAR file into the following location: D:\ashish\softwares\wls1036_dev\mydomain\autodeploy