In Weblogic pre 9.x, there used to be an installSvc.cmd script which you could just double-click and your Weblogic Server would be installed as a Windows service. For a lazy hacker like me, this was very useful.
After Weblogic 9.x, I couldn't find the script and basically had to resort to command-line startup of the server for a while. Now, I generally don't like to have command-line startups cluttering my taskbar, especially when I'm using Windows and doing demoes.
So, with the help of my colleagues Ian and Devon, we wrote a script that would install a managed server as a Windows service and which you can quietly start in the background.
Here it is.Replace your paths as appropriate. If you use the script below, make sure that you also include the username and password in your boot.properties file (the username and password are required at startup of the server). Hang on, did I just say write a username and password in a file that can then be read by anyone? Nope. When you first start Weblogic server, the username and password values in boot.properties would be encrypted at the first run.
Naturally, all the usual disclaimers apply: i.e. I'm not responsible for anything etc etc.
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set DOMAIN_NAME=mydomain
set USERDOMAIN_HOME=D:\bea\user_projects\domains\mydomain
set SERVER_NAME=myserver
set PRODUCTION_MODE=true
set JAVA_OPTIONS=-Dweblogic.Stdout="D:\bea\user_projects\domains\mydomain\stdout.txt" -Dweblogic.Stderr="D:\bea\user_projects\domains\mydomain\stderr.txt" -Dweblogic.management.server="http://localhost:7001" -Dweblogic.management.discover=false
set MEM_ARGS=-Xms512m -Xmx1024m
call "D:\bea\wlserver_10.0\server\bin\installSvc.cmd"
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Enjoy!
