It seems as if Oracle has improved the WebLogic Administration Console a great deal with the latest Oracle WebLogic 10g R3 (10.3) release of the former BEA Application Server. After playing around a bit with the latest application server from Oracle, I found that they have brought back a much needed feature that was removed from the 10.x series of WebLogic Server, and that is the auto-refresh feature of a server’s state. Currently, in WebLogic 10.0 and WebLogic 10.0 MP1, the auto-refresh feature was removed, which was peculiar considering it was present in the 8.1 releases.

Oracle WebLogic 10g Admin Console Screen Shot

It looks like Oracle is starting to do some much needed housecleaning on the formerly BEA application server’s features list, and not a moment too soon. My hopes are that this is just the beginning and Oracle infuses some serious resources into the minor details that make or break a good application server from the systems administrator’s point of view.

Oracle WebLogic Server 10.3 can be downloaded from Oracle’s OTN site here: http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/weblogic/index.html

1. prakash Says:
   August 20th, 2008 at 1:18 am

   Let me know if you are interested in trying out our new console for weblogic. Its much faster than the one that is shipped with the server

   http://www.cypal.in/lite

2. MatthewSacks Says:
   August 20th, 2008 at 10:13 pm

   It looks interesting, perhaps you should showcase some of the Systems Administration features of the GUI demo. Personally, I like to perform configuration changes with WLST, and I use the administration console mainly for viewing open socket counts, starting and stopping servers, etc.

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