Deploying to Weblogic using Maven

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• Note that there is an alternative method of Deploying to Weblogic using HotDeploy

Contents 1 Installation - Maven 2 Installation - additional weblogic Jars 3 Usage 4 See Also

Installation - Maven

• Maven Weblogic Plugin homepage: http://mojo.codehaus.org/weblogic-maven-plugin/
• Ensure you have the proxy set in your Maven conf directory (if required)
• Add the following to the Maven Projects pom.xml (within the plugins tag)

<plugin>
				<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
				<artifactId>weblogic-maven-plugin</artifactId>
				<version>2.8.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
				<configuration>
					<adminServerHostName>localhost</adminServerHostName>
					<adminServerPort>7001</adminServerPort>
					<adminServerProtocol>http</adminServerProtocol>
					<userId>weblogic</userId>
					<password>weblogic</password>
					<upload>false</upload>
					<remote>false</remote>
					<verbose>false</verbose>
					<debug>false</debug>
					<targetNames>myserver</targetNames>
				</configuration>
			</plugin>

• try an mvn clean on the project to see if it picks it up ok.
  • if not , ensure that the following link to the plugin repository is your maven\conf\settings.xml

within the profile' tag

<pluginRepositories>
     <pluginRepository>
       <id>Maven Snapshots</id>
       <url>http://snapshots.maven.codehaus.org/maven2/</url>
       <snapshots>
         <enabled>true</enabled>
       </snapshots>
       <releases>
         <enabled>false</enabled>
       </releases>
     </pluginRepository>
   </pluginRepositories>

Installation - additional weblogic Jars

• Install the following Jars manually. Change the path to the jar files to suit your system (the paths given are default install for Weblogic 81 on Windows)

mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=weblogic -DartifactId=weblogic -Dversion=8.1 -Dpackaging=jar -Dfile=C:\bea\weblogic81\server\lib\weblogic.jar
mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=weblogic -DartifactId=webservices -Dversion=8.1 -Dpackaging=jar -Dfile=C:\bea\weblogic81\server\lib\webservices.jar

Usage

• more information on goals at http://mojo.codehaus.org/weblogic-maven-plugin/plugin-info.html

• List deployed application - useful to check that setup is working

mvn weblogic:listapps

• Typical - deploy a built ear application to weblogic

mvn weblogic:deploy

See Also

Weblogic | Maven Information | Windows Proxy to Use tools such as Lynx, Deploy on Corporate Network