WLST Starting issue for FMW products

Oracle released the latest version of WebLogic 12.2.1 version in the month of October 2015. Interestingly lots of new features loaded into this version. To make common tools available for every Fusion Middleware product such as SOA, OSB, etc.

WLST OSB FMW, SOA servers using alias in bash_profile

When I've executed 'java weblogic.WLST' (old fashion) in the command prompt as I've done in the earlier version. It was deprecated in the latest version!!!

In the 12c (12.2.1 version) instead of using WebLogic you need to use Middleware infrastructure 12.2.1 installer. Which is going to support different Suite products : SOA Suite, EBS suite etc.

Could not find the offline class

The earlier version WLST was available from the WL_HOME/common/bin/wlst.sh or cmd. Now it is deprecated in the latest version.

WLST RuntimeException in WebLogic 12.2.1

The fix here is that you must use the script present in $ORACLE_HOME/oracle_common/common/bin/wlst.sh, this will support all Oracle Fusion Middleware Homes.

WLST path in 11g and 12c differed

Best practice is you must include the following line in the profile file such as .bash_profile or .bashrc in your user home directory:

alias wlst="/home/oracle/products/12.2.1/Oracle_Home/oracle_common/bin/wlst.sh" 
 # or best for all next versions 
alias wlst=$ORACLE_HOME/oracle_common/common/bin/wlst.sh

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