A while ago Oracle released its new version of WebLogic Server 12.1.2 with lots of new cool features such as dynamic clustering and elastic JMS. Now there have been a lot of improvements from an administrative point of view, nevertheless JMS version is still at 1.1 (already since 2002!) Version 2.0 is out but not for this release yet.
For doing some testing I didn’t have an Oracle database present, so why not use WebLogic’s embedded database Derby?
Derby Database configuration
If
you have a WebLogic environment configured and you need to test against
a database, a quick and easy solution is offered to you. Shipped from
version 10.3.3 WebLogic uses Apache’s Derby database built in (previous
versions were shipped with PointBase). Derby is Apache’s OpenSource
database based on Java, it’s JDBC drivers and SQL. It has a small
footprint so it’s ideal for lightweight operations. Very easy to set up,
as you will read in this blog.
You could start the derby database ( on *nix systems) from command line. In the WebLogic server home the derby libraries, binaries and scripts are located under
<WL_HOME>/common/derby.
First start the connection interface:
/u01/app/middleware_1212/wlserver/common/derby/bin/startNetworkServer
-h <hostname> (I used localhost, but better use your FQDN)
A more concise way to do is to embed this into your WebLogic domain. This can be done very easily by setting derby tor true in your setDomainEnv file:
DERBY_FLAG="true"
export DERBY_FLAG
Now, there are several ways to create a database:
- Through derby command line ij:
/u01/app/middleware_1212/wlserver/common/derby/bin/ij
connect 'jdbc:derby://localhost:1527/qnlel1dbs;ServerName=localhost;databaseName=qnlel1dbs';
create=true'; - In the WebLogic console, which is a very easy way
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After
the test is successful, and you’ve targeted the datasource to the
proper servers, it is ready for use. Now, for my test I needed to create
some tables and sequences. This can be done through command line with
sql: Read the complete article here.
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