John Yu

WebLogic Server Scripting Tool (WLST) provides powerful command-line capability for system administrators and developers to configure WebLogic server environments. However, its usage and adoption does not reach its full potential, seen at many working places, due to various reasons. This article gives a detailed example of using WLST to configure some of the latest security provisions (SAML 2.0) of WebLogic server, and provides insights on how to overcome the possible hurdles which prevent one from using the tool. Why WLST and What's Stopping You? Now it's not difficult to do a little research yourself and find out WLST is useful for configuring WebLogic server and Jython/Python itself is a popular scripting language, so why WLST is not used, or at least not consistently used, in many WebLogic projects, considering it has existed for quite some time. After all, the ... (more)