A Upgrading WebLogic Server 9.x or 10.x Application Environments to 10.3.6

The following sections describe the procedures for upgrading application environments from WebLogic Server 9.x or 10.x to the WebLogic Server 10.3.6 release:

• Creating a New Domain

• Updating an Existing Domain

• Upgrading Beehive Applications

  Note:

  Oracle does not recommend upgrading an application environment that is currently deployed in production. Instead, you should upgrade your application environment while it is under development or test and execute standard procedures for quality assurance and performance tuning before promoting the upgraded environment to production.

Creating a New Domain

This option is useful if the process of creating and customizing a domain has been automated. The steps to create a new domain are as follows:

1. Install WebLogic Server 10.3.6 software.

2. To create your domain in 10.3.6, use a default domain template provided in 10.3.6. Alternatively, if you used a custom 9.x template to create your domain in 9.x, use the same to create a new 10.3.6 domain.

   This step can be accomplished using the Configuration Wizard or using automated scripts, built using WebLogic scripting tools such as WLST. The Configuration Wizard is described in Creating Domains Using the Configuration Wizard, and WLST is described in Oracle WebLogic Scripting Tool.

   You may need to update your automated scripts, for example, to reference the 10.3.6 domain template and/or to implement new features provided in the 10.3.6 release.

   For example, starting in WebLogic 9.1, the default security providers are XACML-based, as described in "Security" in Information Roadmap for Oracle WebLogic Server . You may choose to add support for the security providers prior to WebLogic 9.1 or make the appropriate changes to use the new XACML-based security providers.

3. Deploy existing WebLogic Server 9.x applications to the new 10.3.6 domain.

   Note:

   If you used a custom 9.x template in step 2, the 9.x applications may already be deployed.

Updating an Existing Domain

Updating an existing domain is useful for maintaining customizations within your test domain if generation of the domain has not been automated. There are two options for upgrading an existing domain, as follows:

• Option One: Manual Update

  1. Install WebLogic Server 10.3.6 software.

  2. Back up the existing application environment, including the domain directory, application and application data that is external to the domain, and log files (if necessary).

  3. Update the script files in the domain to point to the installation of WebLogic Server 10.3.6. For example, set MW_HOME, MW_HOME, BEA_HOME, BEA_JAVA_HOME, JAVA_HOME, and WL_HOME to the appropriate values.

  4. Update the CLASSPATH to remove path information that is no longer required, such as patch file information that applies to a pre-10.3.6 release.

• Option two: Automated Update

  Use the Domain Upgrade Wizard, as described in Chapter 5, "Upgrading a WebLogic Domain."

Upgrading Beehive Applications

If you developed Beehive applications in 9.0, 9.1 or 9.2, you must upgrade the applications as described in "Upgrade Paths" in Beehive Integration in BEA WebLogic Server, available at https://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13222_01/wls/docs100/beehive/introduction.html#upgrade.

Note:

Instead of using Apache Beehive, Oracle recommends that you use ADF, which offers a rich application framework and is the Oracle standard.