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Oracle WebLogic Server

Score7.4 out of 10

116 Reviews and Ratings

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What is Oracle WebLogic Server?

Oracle WebLogic Server is a unified and extensible platform for developing, deploying and running enterprise applications, such as Java, for on-premises and in the cloud. WebLogic Server offers a scalable implementation of Java Enterprise Edition (EE) and Jakarta EE.

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Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features Oracle WebLogic Server has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
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Top Performing Features

  • Open-source standards compliance

    Support for open-source standards like J2EE

    Category average: 7.9

  • Security management

    Integrated security management for applications

    Category average: 8.3

  • Application server performance

    Speed of deploy time, initialization time and other performance metrics

    Category average: 8.3

Areas for Improvement

  • Installation

    Ease of download and installation

    Category average: 8.5

  • Administration and management

    Ease of management via administration console

    Category average: 7.6

  • IDE support

    Support for a number of different programming environments or IDEs

    Category average: 7.4

Reviews

What users are saying about Oracle WebLogic Server.
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"Oracle WebLogic Server: A Powerhouse for Java EE apps, But Not for Everyone"

Incentivized
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Oracle WebLogic Server as our application server for a Java Enterprise application. We run up to 24 JVMs tu support our user base, along with JMS servers to handle asynchronous messaging queues. The application itself is to process Fraud and Disputes claims, as well as Account take over/Unauthorized account access.

Pros

  • Oracle WebLogic Server JMS has been great for us to handle asynchronous message processing.
  • Oracle WebLogic Server console has also been great as it makes it easier to manage all our application.
  • The clustering capabilities also makes it easier to manage deployments across nodes and support for load balancing
  • Lastly, the full Java EE support has been great, we've been able to install library to extend our applications integration capabilities.

Cons

  • Debugging issues has been difficult sometimes, the documentation is too dense and finding the the root cause for an specific issue takes time.
  • The Oracle WebLogic Server console UI feels old and gives a sense of lack of innovation even though it provides so much functionality.
  • I'm not sure if Oracle WebLogic Server supports more modern frameworks, but it feels more like a Java EE specific, maybe there's an opportunity there to appeal to newer application platforms

Return on Investment

  • 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.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition

Other Software Used

PostgreSQL, Snowflake, Pega Platform

Oracle WebLogic Server stable and flexibile

Incentivized
Verified User
Advisor in Information Technology (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Oracle WebLogic Server can be used in many ways. As a seperate product to develop and publish your web applications on or like in our case it is the "under the hood" engine and platform for one of our key applications that we bought. We still need to update and administer Oracle WebLogic Server ourselves and at that it proved to be a stable product that does it's job well.

Pros

  • Stability
  • Good management console
  • No broken updates

Cons

  • User friendly interface

Return on Investment

  • High uptime due to platform stability
  • Improved product security

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Oracle Database, Microsoft IIS and Apache Tomcat

Other Software Used

Microsoft IIS, Apache Tomcat, TOPdesk

The best service from oracle weblogic

Incentivized
Jayden NishimuraView profile
Digital Marketing Director in Marketing at Nintendo (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In my experience, Oracle WebLogic is a powerful platform for building various types of applications. We've been using Oracle WebLogic Application Server in our organization for several years now and can say it's a good middleware choice for an enterprise environment. He made extensive use of the capabilities of Weblogic JMS and found exceptional speed and reliability.

Pros

  • 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.

Cons

  • Sometimes it takes forever to start a server.
  • I think the price could be more attractive. I think this product is a little more expensive.

Return on Investment

  • In my personal criticism, we believe that this tool does not have negative points of view that limit our work.

Other Software Used

Asana

Oracle Weblogic Solutions

Incentivized
Surbhi SinghalView profile
Senior Software Engineer in Information Technology at BOLD (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

As we are in the Business Intelligence team, we require solutions related to database, management, and delivery. We have used Oracle's WebLogic suite for our customer's development and its solutions. In our day-to-day business, it's needed to have the optimum solution in place to cater to our business requirements. Nowadays Oracle is in demand and we continue to use it.

Pros

  • Business solutions
  • Reporting
  • Management

Cons

  • Costing

Return on Investment

  • It worked for our business and purpose.

Alternatives Considered

Oracle Analytics Cloud

Great value for the price

Incentivized
Scott KennedyView profile
Director, eCommerce Analytics and Digital Marketing in Marketing at Franklin Sports (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The Oracle WebLogic Suite application is being used to simplify the management for our development teams. The really easy lightweight distribution of the IDE (integrated development environment) makes the process of coding happen much faster than using other closely related systems. In general, we use this platform to development much of our backend code.

Pros

  • Simplified management of development
  • solid performance and reliability
  • great bug monitoring capabilities

Cons

  • The integration stand up time takes a little longer than we anticipated
  • The automated failover process is a bit slow
  • The java fight recorder crashes from time to time

Return on Investment

  • getting code to production faster
  • making code accurate at a faster pace
  • sharing code between developers is easier

Alternatives Considered

Apache Tomcat and NGINX

Other Software Used

Apache Tomcat, NGINX, Microsoft IIS

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