Weblogic Spring Console

Oracle Weblogic 12c, now includes a spring console to monitoring all spring beans enabled applications. In order to activate this feature you have to follow the next steps.

Activate spring console extension

• In the preferences panel, extensions tab, select spring-console, using the checkbox, and click ‘Enable’.
• Restar Weblogic to activate the extension.

Deploy weblogic-spring.jar.

• Locate weblogic-spring.jar, located in ${WL_HOME}/server/lib
• Deploy as library the jar using weblogic console.

Enable spring in your application.

• As all spring enabled application, you have to include the spring listener in web.xml :

<web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
         xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd"
         version="3.0">
    <context-param>
        <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
        <param-value>classpath:spring-config.xml</param-value>
    </context-param>
    <listener>
        <listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
    </listener>
</web-app>

• Add WeblogicSpringApplicationListener in your spring context configuration file in order to generate all MBeans needed to display the beans in the enabled console.

<bean class=»weblogic.spring.monitoring.WeblogicSpringApplicationListener» />

• Add or change the MANIFEST.MF file with the following lines

Extension-List: WeblogicSpring
WeblogicSpring-Extension-Name: weblogic-spring
WeblogicSpring-Specification-Version: 12.1.1.0
WeblogicSpring-Implementation-Version: 12.1.1.0

• Deploy your application, and go to deployed app details, and navigate to SpringFramework tab to see the detailed spring configuration information.