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ORACLE WEBLOGIC AS A SERVICE

KEY FEATURES
Rapid WebLogic service creation
running on IaaS Compute Service
Fully customizable for any Java
application
Each tenant gets dedicated WebLogic
cluster(s)
Based on pre-configured VM images
Built-in High Availability
Customer has full administrative control



























Oracle WebLogic as a Service offers a complete solution for building and
deploying enterprise Java EE applications in the Cloud. It provides each
tenant accessing to the dedicated WebLogic cluster(s) built with the
industrys best application server, Oracle WebLogic Server running on
top of Oracle Public Clouds Infrastructure as a Service Compute Service.
The Oracle WebLogic as a Service provides multiple options for
WebLogic cluster size, Compute Instance size and shape and value
added services.

With the Oracle WebLogic as a Service, businesses can maximize productivity
with instant access to the services that support any Java EE application, fully
visible and customizable environment and database access delivering the
combined high availability and flexibility. The WebLogic as a Service instance is
provisioned based on pre-configured VM images. The customers have the full
administrative control for configuration, deployment, and management.

WebLogic as a Service Provisioning Lifecycle

The WebLogic as a Service instance can be easily created by adding a new
WebLogic service in the Oracle Public Cloud Managed Infrastructure Service
GUI based configuration and provisioning system.


Figure 1: WebLogic as a Service running on IaaS

The new WebLogic service is created with the Virtual Machine instance type
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providing different instance size and resource allocation options. For example,
you can provision a WebLogic as a service instance with Small, Medium, Large,
X Large and 2X Large instance type.


Figure 2: Creating WebLogic service with VM instance type

Different versions of WebLogic Server software are supported to run in your new
WebLogic as a Service instance. During the provisioning process, you can
choose either running on WebLogic 11g or 12c.
The Oracle WebLogic 11g application server product line is the
industrys most comprehensive Java Platform for developing, deploying,
and integrating enterprise applications.
The Oracle WebLogic Server 12c is a leading Java EE application
server, delivering next generation application on a mission-critical cloud
platform, with native cloud management and integrated tools.
The new WebLogic service is provisioned with the details of selecting cluster
size, i.e., one, two, four or eight nodes, elastic IP pool, and WebLogic Java
service configuration options; such as Database access configuration, etc.
With the input of the cluster size and service level, the new WebLogic service
can be successfully added.

WebLogic as a Service provides different service levels.
The Basic level is a pre-configured and automatically installed
WebLogic single cluster of any size. Its managed by customer
administrator with local Oracle Enterprise Manager.
The Managed level offers the WebLogic clusters of any size with on-
demand elasticity and high available capabilities. Automated patching
and backup, recovery functions are included.
The Premium Managed level takes advantages of using WebLogic
premium capabilities, such as WebLogic Active GridLink for RAC which
gives a complete end-end HA and high performance solution for
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building mission critical applications. The Active
Failover and Oracle managed upgrades are also included in this service
level.
Figure 3: WebLogic as a Service service level

WebLogic as a Service Administration and Management

Post provisioning, the full environment, including WebLogic clusters, service
configurations is visible and customizable to the customers. You can scale up,
down your cluster size; reconfigure your data sources with the advanced
connection pool setting; configure the JMS services for the
or add new service configuration options. You can deploy your new custom Java
EE applications or re-host your existing enterprise applications.

For instance level administration, Enterprise Manager F
Middleware Control or WebLogic Server Administration Console
available for configuration, deployment, monitoring and management
your WebLogic Server domain.

Figure 5: WebLogic Administration Console

For fleet level operations, Enterprise Manager (EM)
be used for WebLogic service management and the EM
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Active-Passive DR with
and Oracle managed upgrades are also included in this service

Figure 3: WebLogic as a Service service level
anagement
Post provisioning, the full environment, including WebLogic clusters, service
configurations is visible and customizable to the customers. You can scale up, or
down your cluster size; reconfigure your data sources with the advanced
the JMS services for the messaging scenarios
You can deploy your new custom Java
host your existing enterprise applications.
For instance level administration, Enterprise Manager Fusion
Middleware Control or WebLogic Server Administration Console are
available for configuration, deployment, monitoring and management of
Console
(EM) Cloud Control can
be used for WebLogic service management and the EM agent is
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installed during the WebLogic as a Service provisioning process on
every VM that has a WebLogic server node.

Figure 6: Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control

Lifecycle Operations

One of the key values of WebLogic as a Service is the simplified lifecycle
operations that are provided within the environment for patching,
backup/recovery, cloning and disaster recovery. To facilitate the lowest cost
operations with best practices, Oracle has built into the environment a simplified
model for these common operations with recommended and scheduled actions
to enable the highest quality of service for your applications


Figure 7: Patching WebLogic within WebLogic as a Service

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How is it Different from Oracle Java Cloud Service?

Oracle Java Cloud Service is a fully-managed by Oracle platform for helping you
rapidly set up an Oracle WebLogic environment to develop and deploy
enterprise Java applications. Since the whole infrastructure is managed by
Oracle, Oracle Java Cloud Service reduces the complexity associated with the
deployment and maintenance of enterprise Java applications. It enables you to
create Java Cloud Service instances quickly. You can deploy your applications
to a service instance, then secure and manage them without worrying about the
underlying infrastructure.

Using the Java Cloud Service you can instantly create Java EE environments
within the Oracle Cloud. These applications can be deployed in standard WAR
(Web Application Archive) or EAR (Enterprise Archive) formats. Beyond the
standard Java EE specifications, Java Cloud Service also supports the
deployment of applications that make use of Oracle WebLogic Server-specific
extensions as well as Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF)
constructs. Oracle Java Cloud Service is the platform designed for SaaS
extensions.


Figure 8: Oracle Java Cloud Service and WebLogic as a Service

Comparing with Java Cloud Service, Oracle WebLogic as a Service not only
provides a pre-configured VM image based provisioning solution to help the
customers rapidly create the WebLogic cluster(s) to develop and deploy Java EE
enterprise applications; but also it gives the full visibility and control to the
customers to customize the entire environment to fit into the specific enterprise
requirements. You can scale up or down the cluster size based on your business
needs. You can change the service configurations. You can deploy a new Java
EE application or re-host an existing application. You can use different IDEs to
develop your Java EE applications. You can manage your investment
environment and monitoring your services with different Oracle management
tools. Mostly, any Java EE application is supported for developing and deploying
with WebLogic as a Service.


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