How to change deployment order in WebLogic?

Question

According to this documentation it is possible to change deployment order in WebLogic: http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E12839_01/apirefs.1111/e13952/taskhelp/deployment/ChangeTheServerDeploymentOrder.html

For example I have two web applications app1.war and app2.ear.
I set "Deployment order" to 1 for app1.war.
And "Deployment order" 100 for app2.ear. Does it mean that app1.war will be up and running prior WebLogic starting to launch app2.ear?

Unfortunately it does not work fo me. WebLogic starting to launch app1.war but then it starting to launch app2.ear when app1.war is not in STATE_ACTIVE yet.

Solution

I think it will start and then complete the launching as per that order. I have tested on my server

It performs the following sequence.

One thread runs through all the apps in the deployment order and transitions all of them to PREPARED, then to ADMIN then to ACTIVE

In my example below, dms.war is set at 50 and portletapp is set at 100 as deployment order.

Thread 0 runs to make all to PREPARED and ADMIN

Thread 1 starts running to make them ACTIVE

####<04-Feb-2011 17:02:05 > <Info> <Deployer> <DefaultServer> <[ACTIVE] ExecuteThread: '0' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)'> <<WLS Kernel>> <> <> <1296819125939> <BEA-149060> <Module dms.war of application DMS Application [Version=11.1.1.1.0] successfully transitioned from STATE_NEW to STATE_PREPARED on server DefaultServer.> 

####<04-Feb-2011 17:02:19 > <Info> <Deployer> <DefaultServer> <[ACTIVE] ExecuteThread: '0' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)'> <<WLS Kernel>> <> <> <1296819139834> <BEA-149060> <Module portletapp of application wsrp-samples [Version=11.1.1.2.0] successfully transitioned from STATE_NEW to STATE_PREPARED on server DefaultServer.> 


####<04-Feb-2011 17:03:25 > <Info> <Deployer> <DefaultServer> <[ACTIVE] ExecuteThread: '0' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)'> <<WLS Kernel>> <> <> <1296819205627> <BEA-149060> <Module dms.war of application DMS Application [Version=11.1.1.1.0] successfully transitioned from STATE_PREPARED to STATE_ADMIN on server DefaultServer.>

####<04-Feb-2011 17:03:33 > <Info> <Deployer> <DefaultServer> <[ACTIVE] ExecuteThread: '0' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)'> <<WLS Kernel>> <> <> <1296819213183> <BEA-149060> <Module portletapp of application wsrp-samples [Version=11.1.1.2.0] successfully transitioned from STATE_PREPARED to STATE_ADMIN on server DefaultServer.> 

####<04-Feb-2011 17:04:57 > <Info> <Deployer> <DefaultServer> <[ACTIVE] ExecuteThread: '1' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)'> <<WLS Kernel>> <> <00e884cc3b492be0:-20717040:12df0741b5b:-8000-0000000000000006> <1296819297757> <BEA-149060> <Module dms.war of application DMS Application [Version=11.1.1.1.0] successfully transitioned from STATE_ADMIN to STATE_ACTIVE on server DefaultServer.>


####<04-Feb-2011 17:04:57 > <Info> <Deployer> <DefaultServer> <[ACTIVE] ExecuteThread: '1' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)'> <<WLS Kernel>> <> <00e884cc3b492be0:-20717040:12df0741b5b:-8000-0000000000000006> <1296819297767> <BEA-149060> <Module portletapp of application wsrp-samples [Version=11.1.1.2.0] successfully transitioned from STATE_ADMIN to STATE_ACTIVE on server DefaultServer.>

Comments

[weberjn]

This works. But you cannot set the order in a deployment plan or a weblogic JEE descriptor. This is a pity, order is a property belonging to two applications, not to a server or a deployment.