Upgrading Your WebLogic Server Configuration: Main Steps

3.Upgrade your server license files. For instructions on how to convert your licenses to the new format, see “Upgrading WebLogic Server License Files” on page 2-4.

4.Convert your weblogic.properties file. For instructions on how to convert your weblogic.properties file, see “Converting the weblogic.properties File to XML Files” on page 2-5and the Console Help documentation.

5.Enter a name for you new Administration Server in the provided window in the Console. This name is used as the Server Name for the Administration Server. If the name is not specified, the name will be myserver by default.

6.Enter a directory location for the resulting conversion output configuration. All files and subdirectories created as a result of the conversion of your original domain will be placed in this directory location.

7.Add classes to your Java system CLASSPATH. For more information see “Classloading in WebLogic Server 7.0” on page 2-8.

8.Modify your existing startup scripts to work with WebLogic 7.0. See “Modifying Startup Scripts” on page 2-8.

9.Package and port your WebLogic server-side business object implementations (referred to as Web applications beginning with WebLogic Server 6.0) to run on WebLogic 7.0. See “Converting and Porting Your Existing Applications into Web Applications” on page 2-9.

10.If you need to port EJBs, see “Porting and Converting Enterprise JavaBeans Applications” on page 2-16.

11.Upgrade JMS. Many new configuration attributes have been added to JMS since WebLogic Server 4.5. For more information, see “Upgrading JMS” on page 2-25.

To upgrade a cluster of servers, follow the above steps for each server and then follow the steps outlined in Setting up WebLogic Clusters in Using WebLogic Clusters. All servers in the cluster should be running 7.0 since there is no interoperability between 4.5 and 7.0 or between 5.1 and 7.0.

To upgrade from WebLogic Server 7.0 to WebLogic Server 7.0.0.1, see Updating WebLogic Server 7.0 GA (7.0.0.0) to 7.0.0.1 in the Installation Guide.

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