Speed up Weblogic Server startup times

Question

At my work, we use Weblogic Server to host an enterprise portal. Which is fine.

However, I\'ve recently had the opportunity to use Tomcat for some side projects, and I a

Answer 1

You will not be able to turn the frog into a princess. I would wonder slightly about those startup times for weblogic - they seem a bit excessive, you're not running on linux by any chance ?

If you're running nested archives (wars within ears etc) and also directory-scanning technologies (hibernate, spring etc), you may try unpacking it all to the corresponding exploded structure before deploying; it has been known to help a bit.

Tomcat contains a very small subset of the features weblogic has. We develop on jetty but deploy on weblogic for acceptance/production environments and this works fairly well. You can do the same with tomcat.

Tomcat is a fairly strict container whilst weblogic is lenient, so you'll normally have only minor troubles deploying to weblogic, especially as long as you continuously do both.

You can also use a tool like javarebel to do really nifty hot-deployment and avoid all those restarts.

Answer 2

WebLogic can also be slow to start up on Linux if it's connecting to a database and you haven't set up DNS properly.

Depending on your setup, you might be able to edit /etc/resolv.conf and comment out the nameserver line. This can reduce WebLogic's startup time from 20 minutes to less than a minute.