Recent Posts by Stephen Felts

In the early days, there was only a single URL format supported for the Oracle thin driver and it could be used with either the XA or non-XA driver class for a GENERIC datasource.  Over the years, more URL formats and driver classes have been supported so now there are nine options listed in the dropdown box for the Oracle driver when creating a datasource in the console (note that the DataDirect Driver is no longer shipped with the product).   The following is a description of...

The Oracle 18.3 database is available and works with WebLogic Server (WLS) . Using Older Drivers with the 18.3 Database Server The simplest integration of WebLogic Server with an Oracle 18.3 database is to use the Oracle driver jar files included in your WebLogic Server installation. There are no known problems or upgrade issues when using 11.2.x or 12.x drivers shiped with WLS when interoperating with an Oracle 18.3 database.  See the Oracle JDBC FAQ for more information on...

This blog describes the use of Oracle's Autonomous Transaction Processing (ATP) service with a WebLogic Server (WLS) datasource.  There is documentation available from various sources that sort of covers this but this document will try to pull it all together in one place for WLS and try to cover solutions for difficulties seen by our customers. This document is focused on what is more specifically called ATP-S (as opposed to ATP-D, the RAC-based version). Introduction: An...

This is garbage that I asked the blog team to remove.

This is garbage that I asked the blog team to remove.

In the original blog article on this topic at this link, I proposed that you delete the multi data source (MDS) and create a replacement Active GridLink (AGL) data source.  In the real world, the multi data source is likely referenced by another objects like a JDBC store and deleting the MDS will create an invalid configuration.  Further, those objects using connections from the MDS will fail during and after this re-configuration.  That implies that for this type of...

This article describes how to integrate WebLogic Server in the latest supported version of Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers. You need to start by getting all of the pieces - Java SE Development Kit, WebLogic Server, and Eclipse IDE. Go to http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk8-downloads-2133151.htmlto download Java SE Development kit (neither WLS nor Eclipse come with it).  Accept the license agreement, download the binary file, and install it on your...

The latest WebLogic Server release 12.2.1.3.0 is now available as of August 30, 2017 and you can download it at http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/fusion-middleware/downloads/index.html .  See https://blogs.oracle.com/weblogicserver/weblogic-server-12213-is-available for more information on the new release.  Java SE 9 became available on September 21, 2017 and it’s available at www.oracle.com/javadownload.  Details about the features included in this release can...

A recent question was raised by a customer on how to create an Active GridLink (AGL) data source using the RESTFUL API's in WebLogic Server (WLS).  First, you can't do it with the API's provided in WLS release 12.1.3.  New API's were provided starting in WLS 12.2.1 that provide much more complete functionality.  These API's  mirror the MBeans and are more like using WLST. The following shell script creates an Active GridLink data source using minimal parameters.  You can add...