Theoretical problem when WebLogic’s NodeManager is using a start script

Many people will use the WebLogic’s NodeManager to use the start script for starting Managed Servers:

StartScriptEnabled=true

The NodeManager will start the Managed Server using the script and monitor the Managed Server when it fails.

One of the mistakes people can make is creating their own start script and start the Managed Server using ‘nohup &’ within this script: Metalink [ID 984122.1] and [ID 861098.1]. The script will finish and the server keeps running, but the NodeManager thinks the Managed Server has failed… Continue reading

A small demo machine with SOA/BPEL/WebLogic/ADF/APEX

Today I had to babysit a demo machine I set-up for a proof of concept. All went well, as I expected.

A two gigabyte RAM Linux machine with SOA/BPEL 11g, two WebLogic 10.3 domains extended with ADF and Apex XE running on it. It kept running, but at one point is had only 30 megs of memory left!

Check out ‘Extending your WebLogic standalone environment with ADF runtime libraries‘ for more information about setting up the WebLogic environment with ADF.