WebLogic Application Deployment & Shared Library
In an enterprise application deployment scenario, there are many cases where some libraries are used/referenced by multiple applications. It would indeed be a bad design to include such common libraries with every application deployed on the WebLogic server. Not only does it prevent redundancy of resources on the server, it also consumes valuable space & deployment time - especially when the libraries are huge. WebLogic server offers the shared library concept using which EARs, JARs, EJBs and WARs can be shared across applications in a WebLogic domain. Let us now see how to package and deploy a shared library in WebLogic server; Step 1: Create a folder structure as shown below Step 2: Copy all the libraries (in this case JAR files) that you would want to share across applications to the lib folder under WEB_INF Step 3: Create a file under META_INF folder by name "MANIFEST.MF" Step 4: Contents of the MANIFEST.MF file are shown below Manifest-Version: 1....