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I had to automatize the deployment of a basic GWT application, packaged as a WAR archive, on a WebLogic 9.2 server.

Maven 2

Mojo Plugin

Firstly, I tried to use Mojo’s maven plugin for Weblogic. I had to add some lines in my pom.xml, almost identical to those available in Mojo’s documentation.

The main issue I encountered was to retrieve the jars mandatory to the plugin, and install them in my local Maven repository. Since the missing jars names given by Maven are not so obvious, here are the paths to retrieve these jars, all included with WebLogic 9.2 installation:

mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=weblogic -DartifactId=xbean -Dversion=9.2 -Dpackaging=jar -Dfile=%BEA_HOME%\server\lib\wlxbean.jar
mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=weblogic -DartifactId=wlw-langx -Dversion=9.2 -Dpackaging=jar -Dfile=%BEA_HOME%\server\lib\wlw-langx.jar
mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=weblogic -DartifactId=wlw-util -Dversion=9.2 -Dpackaging=jar -Dfile="%BEA_HOME%\common\lib\wlw-util.jar"
mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=weblogic -DartifactId=bcel -Dversion=5.1 -Dpackaging=jar -Dfile="%BEA_HOME%\javelin\lib\bcel-5.1.jar"
mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=weblogic -DartifactId=javelinx -Dversion=9.2 -Dpackaging=jar -Dfile="%BEA_HOME%\javelin\lib\javelinx.jar"
mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=weblogic -DartifactId=weblogic-container-binding -Dversion=9.2 -Dpackaging=jar -Dfile="%BEA_HOME%\server\lib\schema\weblogic-container-binding.jar"

Issues

Once this issue fixed, I tried to launch the deployment (with mvn weblogic:deploy). But I encountered the following error:
Response: '404: Not Found' for url: 'http://localhost:7070/bea_wls_deployment_internal/DeploymentService'
Complete stacktrace in debug and verbose mode:

weblogic.deploy.api.internal.utils.DeployerHelperException: The source 'C:\LOCALS~1\Temp\appliGWT-1.0-SNAPSHOT.war' for the application 'iVarGwt' could not be loaded to the server 'http://localhost:7070/bea_wls_deployment_internal/DeploymentService'.
Response: '404: Not Found' for url: 'http://localhost:7070/bea_wls_deployment_internal/DeploymentService'
        at weblogic.deploy.api.internal.utils.JMXDeployerHelper.uploadSource(JMXDeployerHelper.java:658)
        at weblogic.deploy.api.spi.deploy.internal.ServerConnectionImpl.upload(ServerConnectionImpl.java:653)
        at weblogic.deploy.api.spi.deploy.internal.BasicOperation.uploadFiles(BasicOperation.java:319)
        at weblogic.deploy.api.spi.deploy.internal.BasicOperation.execute(BasicOperation.java:411)
        at weblogic.deploy.api.spi.deploy.internal.BasicOperation.run(BasicOperation.java:169)
        at weblogic.deploy.api.spi.deploy.WebLogicDeploymentManagerImpl.deploy(WebLogicDeploymentManagerImpl.java:369)
        at weblogic.deploy.api.tools.deployer.DeployOperation.execute(DeployOperation.java:47)
        at weblogic.deploy.api.tools.deployer.Deployer.perform(Deployer.java:139)
        at weblogic.deploy.api.tools.deployer.Deployer.runBody(Deployer.java:88)
        at weblogic.utils.compiler.Tool.run(Tool.java:158)
        at weblogic.utils.compiler.Tool.run(Tool.java:115)
        at weblogic.Deployer.run(Deployer.java:70)
        at org.codehaus.mojo.weblogic.DeployMojoBase.executeDeployer(DeployMojoBase.java:510)
        at org.codehaus.mojo.weblogic.DeployMojo.execute(DeployMojo.java:49)
        at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultPluginManager.java:451)
        at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoals(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:558)
        at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeStandaloneGoal(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:512)
        at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoal(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:482)
        at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoalAndHandleFailures(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:330)
        at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeTaskSegments(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:291)
        at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.execute(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:142)
        at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:336)
        at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:129)
        at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:287)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
        at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:315)
        at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:255)
        at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:430)
        at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:375)

Deploying another application worked, deploying my application using WebLogic console worked too… After many hours of search, I gave up Maven2 way.

Ant

After retiring from using Mojo’s plugin, I used a way I feared would be less elegant: Ant.

Indeed, Ant script is very short and efficient:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<project name="redeploy" basedir="." default="deploy">
	<property file="redeploy.properties" />

	<target name="init-weblogic-task">
		<available file="${env.WL_HOME}/server/lib/weblogic.jar"
			property="weblogic-jar.present" />
		<fail unless="weblogic-jar.present">${env.WL_HOME}/server/lib/weblogic.jar does not
			exist</fail>

		<taskdef name="wldeploy" classname="weblogic.ant.taskdefs.management.WLDeploy"
			classpath="${env.WL_HOME}/server/lib/weblogic.jar" />
	</target>

	<target name="deploy" depends="init-weblogic-task">
		<wldeploy action="deploy" source="${source}"
			name="${name}" user="${user}" password="${password}" verbose="true"
			adminurl="${adminurl}" debug="true" targets="${targets}" upload="true"
			securitymodel="${securitymodel}" stage="stage" />
	</target>

</project>

In the same folder, I created a property file, gathering the properties hinted at in Ant build.xml.

env.WL_HOME=C:/bea/weblogic_9_2
adminurl=t3://localhost:7070
name=appliGWT
user=weblogic
password=myPassword
targets=myTarget
securitymodel=Advanced
source=../../../target/appliGWT-1.0-SNAPSHOT.war

I launched Ant and the deployment was successful.

Maven anyway, but with Ant

Yet, since I build with Maven, I do not want to have to build, change folder, and then deploy: I want a unique command line to package and deploy. To perform that, I added a profile in my pom.xml, using a Maven plugin to call Ant tasks:

    <profiles>
        <profile>
            <id>deploy</id>
            <build>
                <plugins>
                    <plugin>
                        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                        <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
                        <version>2.4.2</version>
                        <configuration>
                            <skipTests>true</skipTests>
                        </configuration>
                    </plugin>
                    <plugin>
                        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                        <artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
                        <version>1.1</version>
                        <executions>
                            <execution>
                                <phase>package</phase>
                                <goals>
                                    <goal>run</goal>
                                </goals>
                                <configuration>
                                    <tasks>
                                        <ant antfile="./src/resources/ant/build.xml"
                                             target="deploy"
                                             inheritall="false" inheritrefs="false"/>
                                    </tasks>
                                </configuration>
                            </execution>
                        </executions>
                    </plugin>
                </plugins>
            </build>
        </profile>
    </profiles>

At last, my target was OK: I can build and deploy with a simple mvn package -Pdeploy