WebLogic Admin Tricks & Tips

If you digest Operating Systems basics or SHELL basics, you might think much effectively and you can make  more optimized ways to leverage your work, you can design your script with enhanced ability with productivity. Once you taste that flavor in my scripts, you can feel that and understand that why did I told those exaggerated words. Let me share my experience on this. In every J2EE production environment is going to have an application code (most of the developer say it the composition of 'dist' and 'properties'), which could be no-stage mode deployment style. Where you need to have a copy of code on every WebLogic server running machine. For every production release there could be success or fail. A wise WebLogic Administrator always takes the backup of the existing code and then go further to do fresh code deployment. According to the best practices of WebLogic deployment process, First time you will do the sample test on the production environment by making ...

Hey smart WLA,  Here I am with one more interesting story of WebLogic Administration "Clearing Cache". This is most often in development environments, where you need to clear the cache for new releases for Web-tier changes, XML loadings, JDBC connection changes, JMS issues, etc.,. Some of the great developers think like this "I can change minor things directly in the jsp files to test stuff" What is actually WebLogic Cache? Basically all the web-tier related files (.jsp .class, JSPCompiled files etc.,) get stored in ./wlnotdelete/app_yourapplicaiton directory. This is treated as cache whenever there is a restart of a WebLogic instance happen then the WebLogic server will look up for last serviced object status stored in the cache to service for any pending requests. Usually, when your EJB Classes need sessions, JMS object requires persistence, your web-tier may contain static contents then Cache will be used by WebLogic Application Server instance. Cache Cleari...