How can I install my J2EE application on a new WLS domain/server?

Question

Hello All,
I am trying to create an installer for our J2EE application using WLS.
Our requirements:
a. Create a fresh domain/server
b. Create/configure JDBC connection pool/datasources
c. Setup startup classes d. Deploy our J2EE application
Here are the steps:
a. Create a new directory (say myapp)
b. Copy files config.xml, DefaultAuthenticatorInit.ldift and SerializedSystemIni.dat
from an already configured WLS (I have one that has everything including JDBC
datasources/startup classes, etc)
c. Create a directory myserver/upload/myapp
d. Put myapp.ear e. Start the server
Is this the right approach or is any other better way of installing a J2EE app?
Any help in this would be highly appreciated.
Thanks and Best Regards
MS

Answer 1

Check out weblogic 8.1 and the ant tasks wlconfig and wlserver to do this
all from ant.
http://e-docs.bea.com/wls/docs81/admin_ref/ant_tasks.html
Also you can do
java weblogic.Server in any new directory and it will create a new config.
You can pass a command line switch,
mkdir -p /temp/mynewdomain
cd /temp/mynewdomain
java -Dweblogic.management.GenerateDefaultConfig=true -Dweblogic.management.
password=foobar1234 -Dweblogic.management.username=foobar1234
weblogic.Server
That will start a new server with a brand new defaulted config. You then in
7.0 have to run java weblogic.Admin command to create and set mbean
attributes, this means from shell having to fire up VM over and over, from
ANT you wont have this problem if you fork, but I think weblogic.Admin has a
nasy system.exit in it in 7.0 ( Sorry).
Things are better in 8.1 and in our next release we are in planning stages
for adding an installation step to deployment and allowing an applicaiton to
express its dependencies. If you have thoughts on this, shoot me an email
at [email protected]
Cheers
mbg
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Hello All,
I am trying to create an installer for our J2EE application using WLS.
Our requirements:
a. Create a fresh domain/server
b. Create/configure JDBC connection pool/datasources
c. Setup startup classes d. Deploy our J2EE application
Here are the steps:
a. Create a new directory (say myapp)
b. Copy files config.xml, DefaultAuthenticatorInit.ldift andSerializedSystemIni.dat
from an already configured WLS (I have one that has everything includingJDBC
datasources/startup classes, etc)
c. Create a directory myserver/upload/myapp
d. Put myapp.ear e. Start the server
Is this the right approach or is any other better way of installing a J2EEapp?
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Any help in this would be highly appreciated.
Thanks and Best Regards
MS