Time for action – configuring Weblogic

You can get the latest version of Oracle WebLogic from their download section: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/weblogic/downloads/index.html.

We are going to use WebLogic 10.3.4 for Windows in this particular exercise. Besides that, since we don't have any bundle for Oracle WebLogic, we would need to download the standalone Liferay Portal war and the dependencies jar that are required for starting up Liferay. You can download the standalone war and dependencies from the following locations:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/lportal/files/Liferay%20Portal/6.0.6/liferay-portal-6.0.6-20110225.war/download.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/lportal/files/Liferay%20Portal/6.0.6/liferay-portal-dependencies-6.0.6-20110225.zip/download.

Since here we don't have a bundle, we will see how to install Liferay from scratch in a plain vanilla Weblogic server. So the configuration steps can be divided into two as follows: