Oracle WebLogic Server vs. Tanzu Application Catalog

I see Oracle WebLogic Application Server being appropriate when an application needs several different data sources and messaging providers configured and accessible, with a configured level of control of resources (connection pools) and timeouts. It is also advisable to create distributed resources that you can configure as always active to provide more processing power, or as failover for situations of availability in case of disaster recovery, for example. An application where the number of required resources configured is very small and almost non-changeable, and no scalability is required, some other options exist in the market with less cost.

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VMware Application Catalog (Bitnami) is well-suited for the following scenarios: - Organizations with many users and a limited IT staff: This product allows them to quickly and easily make a variety of applications available to their users, without having to manually install and configure each one. - Organizations with a need to deploy a wide range of open-source applications in a virtual environment: The product allows for easy discovery, download, and deployment of a wide range of popular open-source applications to a virtual machine. - Organizations that operate in a hybrid or multi-cloud environment: The product allows for deployment of applications to virtual machines running on-premises or in the cloud, depending on the organization's needs and infrastructure. On the other hand, VMware Application Catalog (Bitnami) may be less appropriate for the following scenarios: - Organizations that primarily use proprietary or closed-source applications: As the product is limited to open-source applications, it may not be suitable for organizations that primarily use proprietary or closed-source applications. - Organizations that require a high degree of customizability for their applications: The product offers limited customizability options for the applications once deployed, which may not be suitable for organizations that require a high degree of customizability. - Organizations that have strict regulatory compliance requirements: The open-source nature of the product may make it less appropriate for organizations that have strict regulatory compliance requirements, as it may not have the same level of support and security as proprietary software.

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• I love that the weblogic dashboard allows you to manage applications and see the status of each application.
• Oracle WebLogic Application Server simplifies usage periods in the development and production of business applications.
• Oracle WebLogic Server allows me to define various aspects of data source entry, including creating a specific multiple connection to facilitate data entry.
• Performance and administration are highlighted in weblogic.

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• pre-packaged templates they provide.
• ease of cloud-deployment of your projects.
• The development community page always has useful information and there is a lot of support.

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• The Admin UI should be further simplified, the UI design was not too user-friendly— too many options and clicks required, difficult for the new beginners to figure out what they are looking for.
• The admin server becomes the single failure point, although Oracle suggested some workarounds by setting VIP and VHost, it was not quite easy and straight forward.
• Domain replication is hard, requiring a lot of knowledge and scripts efforts.
• Admin will hang if the node manager communication encounters some issues for one or some nodes in the domain/cluster.
• Not able to kill/terminate the stuck thread, the only way is to restart the managed server (JVM)
• License cost is too high, for small businesses.

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• Possibility to configure the implementation through mobile devices
• Sometimes the performance of the VMs is slower than expected
• A best way to do the upgrades, you have reinstall and reconfigure in this process

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Oracle WebLogic Server has so many features that sometimes it's hard to find the right place to setup things, I think the dated user interface does not help with that either. This has a direct impact when deciding to use it as your application server, you'd need to have the right people and invest the time needed to master it. If you're application justifies it then it will definitely be a great choice in the long run.

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Most of it is intuitive. I think some of the awkwardness is found by new users who are unfamiliar with other software applications.

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Oracle WebLogic Application Server is great at security, performance and features.

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The Oracle support is not great sometimes. They take a long time and need a lot of data over and over to resolve issues.

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They have an expert team, not just a frontline team that has learned the FAQs but a team that knows the product.

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I wasn't involved in selecting the server we were using but in our team we've made some efforts to improve the local deployment process by trying some other Applicational servers too. Apache Tomcat was a more lightweight solution for sure, and it coped well with our applications needs, configuration and performance wise. Despite that, since we didn't got clearance to change that into our local servers, we kept using Weblogic to guarantee compliance between the testing environments and production.

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At first, another of the options that we considered was AMPPS, another application for AMP installations, however we quickly discarded it when we met with VMware Application Catalog (Bitnami), mainly due to the number of apps it handled, more than anything because it had all the ones we used and also the option free made it very tempting, more time in the market and more community support

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• It made it easy to handle over a 100 of deployments across multiple nodes every quarter.
• It was easy to scale up our application to 36 nodes as the volume of transactions increased over the years.
• Helped us achieve 99.999 availability for our users.

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• It's helped to create a community of loyal users, which would be difficult with other applications
• The implementation was fast
• It's easy to update

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