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Spring Bean Task Overview

Before you begin

Before you can view Spring beans in an application using the Administration Console, you must follow these steps:

  1. Enable the Spring Console extension, as follows:
    • In the banner toolbar region at the top of the right pane of the Console, click Preferences.
    • On the Preferences page, click Extensions.
    • Select the check box next to spring-console, then click Enable.
    • Stop the server, then restart it for the change to take effect.

    You only need to perform this step once for your domain.

  2. Install the WL_HOME/server/lib/weblogic-spring.jar file as a JEE library to your WebLogic Server instance, where WL_HOME refers to the main WebLogic Server installation directory, such as /beahome/wlserver_10.3.

    You only need to perform this step once for your WebLogic Server instance.

    The weblogic-spring.jar is a JEE optional package that creates the MBeans for your application when you deploy your application.

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  3. Be sure that the application that contains the Spring beans has been correctly configured so it can be displayed in the Administration Console.

    For details, see Spring Extension to Oracle WebLogic Server


Spring beans are plain old Java objects (POJOs) that are managed by a Spring Framework container; a Spring application contains one or more Spring beans along with optional supporting Spring technologies such as transaction management and database access using JDBC, with an application context that ties everything together.

After following the instructions above, you can view the configuration of deployed Spring beans using the Administration Console. When the Spring application is deployed and started, weblogic-spring.jar creates clusterable runtime MBeans based on the Spring application context and then registers the runtime MBeans with the runtime MBean server. For this reason, you can view the deployed Spring beans' configuration.

Note: In this release, Spring bean management is read-only; you cannot use the Administration Console to change the configuration of a Spring bean.

The following links provide information about the Spring bean tasks you can perform using the Administration Console:

For more information about Spring support in WebLogic Server, see Spring Applications Reference in Developing Applications with WebLogic Server.

For information about creating Spring beans, see the Spring Framework documentation.


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