WebLogic Suite Valuable Features

Abdou Mohamadou - PeerSpot reviewer
Data warehouse analyst at Québec Government

The most valuable feature of WebLogic is it has excellent performance and stability compared to the previous solution we used. 

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VB
Deliver Head - Database and Infrastructure cloud services at Tech Mahindra Limited

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.

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TK
Systems Analyst at a government with 201-500 employees

I am satisfied with the product. The product is reliable. We can depend on it.

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March 2024
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GA
Java Full Stack Developer at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

The solution is useful for centralizing data.

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JL
Team Lead - Oracle Applications DBA at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Ease of scalability through both asymmetric 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.

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it_user423384 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant Principal on: MuleSoft Expert, Oracle Fusion Expert, webMethods Expert; Dev, SA, EA, PM at Visual Integrator Consulting

WebLogic is and has always been a leading application development platform even going back to the BEA days, so some of the great features that WebLogic provides is scalability, the ability to build very robust applications that can support many simultaneous transactions, many users and the ironclad and robust enough to be enterprise level as well as user facing for the broader public community.

Some of the application features that are out there are the ability to build rich applications using frameworks on WebLogic such as Oracle Application Development Framework or Oracle Mobile Framework or whatever the case may be but a lot of these are very feature rich plugins into WebLogic in order to develop and build user facing applications.

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JL
Team Lead - Oracle Applications DBA at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

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.

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VB
Deliver Head - Database and Infrastructure cloud services at Tech Mahindra Limited

The most valuable feature are robustness, high availability, and multi-domain concepts.

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NS
Oracle Fusion Middleware specialist at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

The feature that I have found to be the most valuable is the ease of deployment. 

In the beginning, you do tend to struggle a bit, but once it's deployed, then everything falls into place and maintaining it is quite simple.

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it_user450624 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager of Oracle Technology/DevOpsManager at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

The most valuable features are that it's easily deployable and easily scalable. It'll shrink and can grow as much as you want. Those are the benefits, but when compared to other products, such open-source Tomcat, we've considered moving from WebLogic to Tomcat because WebLogic is very expensive.

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it_user487122 - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Director at a training & coaching company with 51-200 employees

It's a very scalable, extensible, middleware component. It's especially useful for big data applications if you're using APIs or have geo-spatial data or complex data sets.

It's also a very affordable and efficient.

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AK
Technical Manager at Royal Visio

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. 

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it_user436173 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Oracle Database Administrator at a pharma/biotech company with 5,001-10,000 employees

The stability of it is probably the most valuable feature for us. We were initially using Oracle Application Server, but found that Oracle advanced quite a lot with WebLogic in terms of stability. We noticed a huge difference and, in comparison, Application Server was really quite flaky.

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AK
Technical Specialist at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

I think the way the managed servers and the load balancing as well as the threading have been distributed is very good.

The transaction handling of WebLogic and the way it is designed is excellent.

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it_user521655 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at Crown Castle

I like that it's industry tested and available on various platforms. I'm not sure we use any specific features of it, other than it’s a robust web server; the services, the database pools, good integration with Oracle database 12c, which is another product that we have.

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it_user547332 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Analyst at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

One of the most valuable features of WebLogic is that deployment is an easy process. The code can be deployed on multiple instances without rework.

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it_user436218 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Consultant at Rubicon Red

I like that fact that it is the most scalable and the best-of-breed application server for hosting any kind of an application. One of the best things about WebLogic Suite is that the enterprise customers we work with have a broad spectrum of Oracle products that they use, from BPM to E-Business Suite to whatever. One thing common to all of these solutions is the fact that they're all on WebLogic server.

It's multi-tenant, is highly available, and I believe it's the best-in-class application server for Java. Most of Oracle's products are in Java, so they are all supported on WebLogic Server. That is one of the biggest aspects. It's very reliable, it's enterprise-grade, so we get great support from Oracle as well.

Technically, there's absolutely nothing that you cannot get from a WebLogic Server in terms of availability and scalability. It is very easy to maintain, and if you look at other JMX process based servers, they don't give you a great console. But WebLogic Server gives you a console for administration, creating resources, managing those resources, troubleshooting, diagnostics, and everything else all in one place.

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Hamid M. Hamid - PeerSpot reviewer
Data architect at Banking Sector

The most valuable feature is the update deployment feature. Update deployment is when you already have an application deployed and you want to handle a new deployment. The feature ensures you don't need to add or remove anything. Rather, you just need to update and the feature will handle everything else, like adding the new features that have been released on the new deployment. It's very simple.

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it_user486504 - PeerSpot reviewer
Programmer Analyst at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The most valuable feature of WebLogic for me is that we can host all our web apps on it, HFM mainly.

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it_user429090 - PeerSpot reviewer
Engagement Manager at NEC Australia - Oracle at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
  • The managed server and deployment architecture.
  • Being able to isolate or combine applications at various levels whilst taking advantage of load balancing and clusters.
  • The web interface is fairly easy to use, but for those who want it, the majority of commands can be executed via scripts WLST.
  • Being able to create deployment templates for use on other hosts.
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it_user521724 - PeerSpot reviewer
President at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The most valuable feature to us is its user friendliness as well as its admin features, which are much better then the previous versions of Oracle.

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it_user418299 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Technical Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

The cluster configuration and cluster performance are the most valuable features for us. In fact, they're better in this most recent version than in previous ones, making it a better solution overall.

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SH
Senior Enterprise Architect at a healthcare company with 11-50 employees

A valuable feature is its integration with Oracle Database. We have another system running Oracle Database which can be easily updated from the database and pushed to the middleware. Also, it easily connects to other Oracle products and services.

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Carlos Ãgueda - PeerSpot reviewer
Operations Manager EMEA at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

It runs smoothly and everything works fine. 

It integrates well with other solutions.

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AA
Data Networking at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The most valuable feature is that it provides one place where you can control all of the services. You can switch on and off individual services, which comes in very handy.

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it_user521553 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Systems Engineering Architect at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

We have JBoss, too, and it's far better than JBoss. It’s more powerful, in terms of the number of sessions you can run on WebLogic, compared to the other product.

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it_user436116 - PeerSpot reviewer
Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

I think that the best feature of WebLogic, as far as middleware goes, is that it's very license-friendly. It's a part of the suite of products that our DBA has included, and I trust that because it means the DBA really wanted it. There are multiple products that compete with WebLogic, but it's completely Oracle, which means that the licensing with other Oracle products is great.

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IO
Database Administrator/Business Analyst at Soft Alliance

I like that the solution is a bit more robust than the API. Also, the setup is straightforward so I rarely have issues in that area or with administering. I think the monitoring tools and the documentation are not bad. 

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SG
Enterprise Architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

The solution's ease of use is its most valuable feature.

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Buyer's Guide
WebLogic Suite
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about WebLogic Suite. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
768,246 professionals have used our research since 2012.