WebLogic 10.3.6 Times Out When Starting Web App

Question

When starting our web app on WebLogic 10.3.6 using startWebLogic.sh on OEL (8 cores, 64 GB box), after about 5 to 6 minutes we receive a timeout error from WebLogic saying that it timed out trying to start the web app. The web app has some pre-computed indices to load which will take an estimated 10 to 15 minutes to load. Is there are way to control this timeout?

Answer 1

The time-out you are getting is that related to a transaction?
You can set the transaction time-out in the WebLogic console go to the JTA page for the domain, and change the value in the Timeout Seconds field.
When you are using EJBs, you can also set the time-out on a EJB basis, instead of configuring the time-out for the whole domain.
For example, in weblogic-ejb-jar.xml, you can configure the time-out by using:
<weblogic-ejb-jar ...>
    <weblogic-enterprise-bean>
        <ejb-name>YOUR_EJB_NAME</ejb-name>
        <enable-call-by-reference>True</enable-call-by-reference>
        <stateless-session-descriptor>
            <pool>
                <initial-beans-in-free-pool>25</initial-beans-in-free-pool>
                <max-beans-in-free-pool>50</max-beans-in-free-pool>
            </pool>
        </stateless-session-descriptor>
        <transaction-descriptor>
            <trans-timeout-seconds>600</trans-timeout-seconds>
        </transaction-descriptor>
    </weblogic-enterprise-bean>
</weblogic-ejb-jar>The transactions this EJB spawns can last for 10 minutes.