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WebLogic Server Tools

Tools and Utilities for WebLogic Server 7.0

This document lists and describes tools and utilities used in WebLogic Server 7.0 developer activities.

Tools from third-party vendors that are listed here are mentioned in various places in WebLogic Server documentation. Their inclusion on this page or elsewhere in our documentation does not imply official endorsement by BEA for use with our products, and we make no representation as to their quality or effectiveness.

- Development Tools

- Deployment and XML Utilities

- WebLogic Server Administration Utilities

- Databases and Database Utilities

- Security Tools and Utilities

- Optimizing Tools

- Packaging Tools

- Interoperability Tool

- Migration Tools for WebLogic Server

- Monitoring Tools

- Testing Tools

- IDE Export/Import Tools

- Modeling Tools

- Editing Tools

- Web Services Tools

- J2EE Scheduling Tools

Development Tools

Weblogic Server Developer Tools

Weblogic Tool | Description
--- | ---
WebLogic Builder | A graphical tool for assembling a J2EE application, creating and editing its deployment descriptors, and deploying it to a server.

Third-Party Tools for Developing WLS Applications

Tool | Description
--- | ---
JBuilder | Popular Java IDE.
Sun JDK | Be sure to get the latest from Sun.
Sitraka JClass | Popular Java IDE.
Borland Together ControlCenter | Development platform for enterprise applications.
iAnywhere | Software platform for mobile and wireless enterprise applications
Nokia SDK | Development environment for mobile and wireless applications.
Sun ONE Studio | IDE for Java technology, based on NetBeans.

Deployment and XML Utilities

WebLogic Server Deployment Tools

WebLogic Server Tool | Description
--- | ---
WebLogic Administration Console | The System Administration Console is a Web browser-based graphical user interface for managing WebLogic Servers. Its management capabilities include configuration, stopping and starting servers, monitoring server performance, monitoring application performance, viewing server logs, and editing application deployment descriptors.
WebLogic Builder | A graphical tool for assembling a J2EE application, creating and editing its deployment descriptors, and deploying it to a server.
EJBGen | Uses Javadoc markup to generate EJB deployment descriptor files and the home, local and remote interfaces.
weblogic.Deployer | Command-line WebLogic Server deployment of J2EE applications.

Third-Party Tools for Deploying WebLogic Server Applications

Tool | Description
--- | ---
Sitraka DeployDirector | Interface for deploying and updating Java applications.
Borland Together ControlCenter | Development platform for enterprise applications.

ant Tasks Used in WebLogic Server Deployment

Tasl | Description
--- | ---
ejbc | Examines EJB interfaces and bean classes and serialised deployment descriptors, and generates the support classes needed to deploy the bean in a WebLogic Server EJB container.
wsgen | Uses information in the build.xml file to assemble Web services into Enterprise Application archive (.ear) files.
DDinit | Examines the contents of a staging directory and builds the standard J2EE and WebLogic-specific deployment descriptors based on the servlet classes and EJB classes. WebLogic Server includes the following utilities: weblogic.ant.taskdefs.ejb.DDInit Creates the deployment descriptors for Enterprise JavaBeans 1.1. weblogic.ant.taskdefs.ejb20.DDInit Creates the deployment descriptors for Enterprise JavaBeans 2.0. weblogic.ant.taskdefs.war.DDInit Creates the deployment descriptors for Web applications. weblogic.ant.taskdefs.ear.DDInit Creates the deployment descriptors for Enterprise Applications.

WebLogic Server Administration Utilities

Tool | Description
--- | ---
AppletArchiver | Runs an applet in a separate frame, keeps a record of all the downloaded classes and resources used by the applet, and packages them into either a .jar file or a .cab file.
getProperty | Gives you details about your Java setup and your system.
showLicenses | Displays license information about BEA products installed on your computer.
system | Displays information about your computer's operating environment, including the manufacturer and version of your JDK, your CLASSPATH, and details about your operating system.
logToZip | Searches an HTTP server log file in common log format, finds the Java classes loaded into it by the server, and creates an uncompressed .zip file that contains those Java classes.
MulticastTest | Sends out multicast packets and returns information about how effectively multicast is working on your network.
myip | Returns the IP address of the host.
verboseToZip | Takes the standard output from a Java application run in verbose mode, finds the Java classes referenced, and creates an uncompressed .zip file that contains the Java classes.
version | Displays version information about your installed WebLogic servers via stdout.
writeLicense | Writes information about all your WebLogic licenses in a file called writeLicense.txt in the current directory.

Databases and Database Utilities

WebLogic Server Database Utilities

Tools | Description
--- | ---
Schema | Generates new JDBC stores, deleting the existing versions.
dbping | Verifies that connectivity to your database.

Third-Party Database Application

Tools | Description
--- | ---
Pointbase | Java database application used in WebLogic Server examples.

Security Tools and Utilities

WebLogic Server Security Utilities

Tool | Description
--- | ---
der2pem | Converts an X509 certificate from DER format to PEM format.
pem2der | Converts an X509 certificate from PEM format to DER format.

Third-Party Security Tools

Tool | Description
--- | ---
CodeSigning Digital ID | Digitally sign software and macros for secure delivery over the Internet.
RSA KEON | Public key infrastructure for e-business.
RSA BSAFE | Software development kits with encryption technology.

Optimizing Tools

Tool | Description
--- | ---
OptimizeIt | Application optimizing, now by Borland.
JProbe ServerSide Suite | Application optimizing by Sitraka.

Packaging Tools

Tool | Description
--- | ---
InstallShield | Multi-platform installation development.
InstallAnywhere | Multi-platform installation development.

Interoperability Tool

Tool | Description
--- | ---
WebLogic Tuxedo Connector | Provides interoperability between WebLogic Server applications and Tuxedo services.

Migration Tools for WebLogic Server

Tool | Description
--- | ---
WebLogic Administration Console | The System Administration Console is a Web browser-based graphical user interface for managing WebLogic Servers.

Monitoring Tools

WebLogic Server Monitoring Tools

Tool | Description
--- | ---
WebLogic Administration Console | The System Administration Console is a Web browser-based graphical user interface for managing WebLogic Servers.

Third-Party Monitoring Tools

Tool | Description
--- | ---
Empirix FarSight | Web Application monitoring.
Introscope | Performance management for applications running on Java Application Servers, from Wily Technology.

Testing Tools

Tool | Description
--- | ---
JProbe | Load testing tool.
LoadRunner | Load testing tool.
Empirix Beantest for WebLogic Server | Scalability and functionality testing for EJB middle-tier applications.
Empirix e-Test Suite | Web testing and monitoring.
Empirix e-Tester | Automated functional and regression testing for Web applications.
Empirix FirstACT | Load and functional testing of Web Services and COM components.
Empirix e-Load | Web load testing

IDE Export/Import Tools

Tool | Description
--- | ---
BEA WebLogic Export Utility for IBM VisualAge for Java v3.5 | Exports project files and packages from IBM VisualAge to your system.
BEA WebLogic Import Utility for VisualCafe | Imports the files exported from VisualAge into WebGain VisualCafe.

Modeling Tools

Tool | Description
--- | ---
Borland Together ControlCenter | Development platform for enterprise applications.
Rational Rose | Model-driven development tool.

Editing Tools

WebLogic Editor

Tool | Description
--- | ---
BEA XML Editor | XML editor capable of validating XML code according to a specified DTD or XML Schema.
WebLogic Builder | A graphical tool for assembling a J2EE application, creating and editing its deployment descriptors, and deploying it to a server.

Third-Party Editors

Tool | Description
--- | ---
Stylus Studio | XML development environment.
Emacs | The extraordinarily powerful text editor.
Java Development Environment for Emacs | Software package that interfaces Emacs to command-line Java development tools.
TextPad | Editor for plain text files.
Enscript | Converts ASCII files to PostScript and stores generated output to a file or sends it directly to the printer.
XMLSpy | XML Schema-driven document and content editing.

Web Services Tools

WebLogic Web Services Tools

Tool | Description
--- | ---
WebLogic Workshop | GUI-based approach to developing distributed, interconnected, and loosely coupled enterprise-class Web Services, for the corporate developer.

Third-Party Web Services Tools

Tool | Description
--- | ---
CapeConnect | Web Services platform.

J2EE Scheduling Tools

This table shows third-party tools for scheduling actions in your J2EE application.

Tool | Description
--- | ---
Flux | J2EE scheduling.
Kronos Enterprise Scheduler | J2EE scheduling.