Co-Installing Weblogic 10

How to Install Weblogic 10 Along Side of an Earlier 8x or 9x Version

These steps can be used to add a new weblogic instance for a developer that needs more than one version of weblogic installed:

[] Install BEA 10.0.2 under a _new_ BEA home
 o Install into C:\bea10
    o Do not install into C:\bea (where WLS_8.1.6 is installed)
    o Leave WLS_8.1.6 installed
 o Do _not_ upgrade the WLS_8.1.6 domain
 o NOTE:
    o WLS_8.x must always reside in C:/bea
    o There is an issue w/ ver WLS_8x
       o EJBs will not deploy if BEA_HOME <> "C:/bea"

[] Create & configure JDBC & Data Sources
o Test each connection, bind each w/ the wls server

[] Use Config Wizard to create a new WLS domain
 o Defaults:
 o Domain ...... mydomain
 o Directory ... C:\bea10\user_projects\domains\mydomain

[] Change ~/bin/startWeblogic.cmd
o Add new line as follows:
  SET JAVA_OPTIONS=-Xdebug -Xnoagent -Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,server=y,address=4000,suspend=n

[] Configure eclipse for JDK 1.5x

[] Change JAVA_HOME
 o Check your local Java version PATH & JAVA_HOME
 o Use the Weblogic installed Sun JDK

[] You may want to copy and rename the distributed jars to your own lib folder:

o weblogic.jar ........... weblogic-10.0.1-weblogic.jar
o webserviceclient.jar ... weblogic-10.0.1-webserviceclient.jar
o wlutil.jar ............. weblogic-10.0.1-wlutil.jar
o api.jar  ................  weblogic-10.0.1-api.jar