Recently I had to add an audit feature in a command line tool that I developed. The requirement is very simple, we need to audit any command that was issued with the tool.
About Me

- Satya Ghattu's Blog
- I work in a financial company where my team provides Architecture, IT, Engineering & Strategic support to Business applications. I worked for BEA Systems (now Oracle) for more than five years as a Senior Software Engineer mainly in the Operations Administration and Management aspects of WebLogic Platform. I possess vast experience in software development excelling in Middleware & Database Components and Core Java/J2EE technologies. I also lead a few open source projects and a contributor on Dev2Dev. Did I mention that I am the original author of WebLogic Scripting Tool (WLST), the official command line tool for WebLogic Platform. I also hold a few software patents, prior to BEA Systems I worked in variety of software industries in various different roles as a Senior Java developer, Software Analyst and as an Oracle DBA. I have a Masters Degree in Engineering from The University Of Akron, Ohio.
Monday, February 02, 2009
Friday, December 12, 2008
Easing WLST syntax while navigating MBeans in interactive mode
This is something I have implemented in WLST but never exposed as a supported feature.
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Friday, October 24, 2008
Number Format Exception while starting WebLogic Server
Ok, this has occurred way too many times recently in our environment. This usually happens if your machine is running low on space and WebLogic Server corrupted a file in the embedded LDAP.
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Thursday, October 23, 2008
usemon from google code, anyone?
Today one of my colleagues mentioned about usemon, an open source java monitoring tool from google code.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
IDE for WLST
I have been asked this question many times and recently here, "What IDE should I use for writing WLST/Jython Scripts?"
Thursday, October 02, 2008
JRockit - Error Message: Illegal memory access. [54]
Recently we upgraded all our WebLogic domains to use JRockit from Sun JDK 1.4. After we restarted our servers we started seeing a JRockit dump in few of our servers.
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
WebLogic "lite" Administration Console
If you have used WebLogic 8.1 console and planning to upgrade to 9.2 or 10.x, boy you are in for a surprise! Well, its good and bad.
Saturday, July 12, 2008
Java 1.4 and WebLogic 8.1 End Of Life
As you might already know Sun announced End Of Life for JDK 1.4 to be October 2008. Since WebLogic 8.1 runs only on JDK 1.4, BEA announced EOL for WebLogic 8.1.
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Encrypting a string in weblogic
One of my developer was asked me this morning if he can encrypt a string so that he does not have to store a clear string in his scripts or variables while configuring resources especially JDBC connection pool's.
Wednesday, April 09, 2008
Rotating your Standard Out/Err log files
If you are a WebLogic Developer or an Administrator there is 90 - 100% chance you have had situations where the WebLogic Server log files are filling up the disk space.
Saturday, February 16, 2008
Dev2Dev Blog
I have decided to move all my dev2dev blog post's to blogger since I am planning to actively post not only about BEA products but in general about other topics.
Sunday, October 07, 2007
Ideas for WebLogic Server Console Extensions
I worked many years at BEA mostly developing tools and applications that ease the management and administration of WebLogic Server.
Thursday, August 23, 2007
Jython 2.2 is finally here!
The first major production release of Jython after almost 6 years is finally here. Jython 2.2 implements Python 2.2 and also includes a number of features from Python 2.3.
Monday, January 01, 2007
WLST startServer re-visited
From the past few months I have been working on a project to create a framework for our WebLogic application developers that can be used to easily build, configure and manage their WebLogic Servers.
Sunday, October 22, 2006
WebLogic Server Console Extensions Project
A few months ago I have started the WebLogic Server Console Extensions CodeShare project on dev2dev to serve as a repository for WLS 9.x console extensions and posted a few extensions. Continue reading here
Saturday, February 18, 2006
In case you run into this issue ...
While upgrading our WLS console to use the latest libraries i.e. to use the latest Struts, Beehive, WebLogic Portal versions.
Wednesday, February 15, 2006
Jython is just too useful
Recently I had to do this repeatedly while working on a project.
1) Revert files with extension .foo that are checked out from source control under a base directory structure.
Friday, January 06, 2006
WLST as a Jython Module
Few questions that I answered about WLST as a module via various email queries recently.
What is a Jython Module?
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Friday, November 25, 2005
Having a profile for your WLST sessions
Did you know that you can have a profile setup for all your WLST sessions?