WebLogic Suite Reviews

We are an Oracle partner and work with many Oracle applications for integration purposes. WebLogic is used for integrating various Oracle applications and third-party services.

WebLogic allows us to do the coding as per the customer's requirements. It helps us meet their needs by integrating their applications seamlessly.

We primarily use WebLogic Suite as a stable application server. Although we previously utilized more capabilities, we have reduced our usage. We don't use it for access control functions like setting groups and entitlements anymore.

There have been no notable operational impacts apart from its stability.

We have two sets of use cases for WebLogic Suite. There are customers who use the solution with Oracle COTS Applications which are Oracle built applications and are based on the Oracle Database, and they use WebLogic Suite as a web server.

Other customers use the solution for their homegrown or third-party applications. They develop their own Java applications and deploy those applications on the WebLogic Suite server, so they use the solution both as an application server and web server, making the solution applicable for any type of business purpose. for example, small applications for attendance, swiping, biometric, etc., and hosting those applications to the core enterprise applications, or even the technological applications. WebLogic Suite can host and support all those applications.

What I've been seeing as the most valuable characteristics of WebLogic Suite include robustness and scalability. It's a really good solution, and I'm not saying this because my company is a partner of WebLogic Suite.

I also like that with the newer versions of the solution, you can deploy WebLogic Suite faster.

Oracle also provides excellent technical support.

Ease of scalability through both assymetric and symmetric clustering; ease of integration with existing and potential future Oracle product technologies; leverages many industry-standard technologies for application support (JSON, REST, SOA, JavaBeans, J2EE; continues to evolve towards a fully-integrated solution designed to front-end enterprise applications whether related to transactional websites, dynamic content management solutions, or acting as an intermediary service provider between other web/URI data sources.

Provides a uniform technology platform between multiple application installations, whether Enterprise Resource Planning or Customer Relationship Management (ERP/CRM) based systems, Imaging ingestion and integration, or document content management. Administration techniques are consistent with only minor UI changes between versions, providing relatively seamless upgrade integration for future deployments and upgrade of the web platform.

Microservices

Integration

AppDev

Mobile

Supply Chain automation

CRM (Salesforce and Dynamics integrations)

A lot of times customers really have to consider 'do I want to use a solution like WebLogic or do I want to look at an opensource solution and what kind of app server container do I want to begin to look at.' Some of the great features that we see with WebLogic is obviously it's coming from an Oracle brand so you're going to have a lot of good support when it comes to that.

That could be product support when there's issues, implementation support or whatever the case may be. We always know that Oracle is going to be putting out a lot of new features and stay in somewhat close to where the industry is going as far as getting their features out the door. Some of the other great features in addition to application development is doing content management because obviously in the Oracle WebCenter Suite which is part of the Oracle WebLogic Suite you can begin to do things like building portals, building contact management, building collaborative integrations to social and cloud and whatever the case may be.

We use WebCenter Content and WebLogic. We use the tool to centralize the data and manage the document and life cycle, metadata management, and workflows. We use WebCenter Content for content management.

The solution is useful for centralizing data.

I usually use the single model or the clustering model of the solution. We deploy the dual application, ADF application, and BPM application, and there is a different scenario for each of them even though they all use WebLogic services. Each use case is somewhat different. It is our customers that use WebLogic. I deal with mid-size companies and also enterprise size companies. We are resellers and I'm the technical manager. 

WebLogic has a very robust server so the product is robust. If there are issues it's usually because there's been a misconfiguration or maybe the application deployed under the WebLogic server has errors. Another positive is that you don't need to go editing external files - the console and the enterprise management tools that Oracle provide for monitoring are really easy to work. The parameters and everything can be found on the console.

Another point is that it has a different way for configuring and working with the application server. You have the EM, the console, and the WLST which you can use the scripting for. You can even extract the WebLogic server from another dual application which can be used in a programming application so you have a console over their application service.

One other feature that is useful is that you can extract WebLogic from different scenarios and from different environments. Because it's based on Java you can run with WebLogic on a PC which has Windows on a server which has AIX or Linux or any other environments. It can handle all of the environments. There are so many good things about this application, I could go on for an hour. 

We are a company that provides IT products and services. My role is to offer solutions to end-customers and then we implement and deploy it for them. WebLogic is part of the solution that we offer customers because PeopleSoft and Oracle ERP products both use it.

WebLogic runs as the middleware for solutions such as Oracle Business Intelligence and Oracle Retail.

WebLogic adds a lot of value to business and investments.