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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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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usemon from google code, anyone?

Today one of my colleagues mentioned about usemon, an open source java monitoring tool from google code.

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IDE for WLST

I have been asked this question many times and recently here, "What IDE should I use for writing WLST/Jython Scripts?"

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.