Automated remote deployment of Webcenter ear to our development enviroment

All the usual undeploy / stop start code worked remotely but unfortunately the deploy was not going as planned - I wanted to set the MDS info on deployment so it was time for a new plan.

So this time on our build server would call WLST to deploy our web center app on the development weblogic enviroment.

Wlst commands I used:

Connect
  connect('weblogic','bobsentme', ''t3://remote.wl:7001')

Stop
  shutdown('ManagedServer1', force='true')

Start
  start(start('WC_Cluster', 'Cluster', 't3://remote.wl:7001'));

Deploy
archive = getMDSArchiveConfig(fromLocation='/tmp/pathto.ear')

archive.setAppMetadataRepository(repository='mds-CustomDS', partition='dev_partition', type='DB', jndi='jdbc/mds/CustomDS')");


archive.save()

deploy(appName='OurAppName', path='/tmp/pathto.ear', targets='WC_Cluster', stageMode='stage',   upload='true')

Undeploy
  undeploy('OurAppName')

Disconnect
  disconnect('true')


Scripts: to get the classpath and environment  variables correct I run the wlst.sh command and echo'ed the classpath and JAVA_OPTS and pulled them into my file not elegant but it did work.


Things still to do:

• Use a secure connection t3s
• Move from script to use wlst directly
• Call setWLenv or something to setup the classpath and java opts for me

Something like:

/opt/Oracle/Middleware/wlserver_10.3/server/bin/setWLSEnv.sh

/opt/Oracle/Middleware/oracle_common/common/bin/setHomeDirs.sh

/opt/Oracle/Middleware/oracle_common/common/bin/setWlstEnv.sh