Weblogic without their IDE?

I'm starting Java development at a place that uses Weblogic on their production and test servers. I'd like to use Weblogic on my computer to develop my code. It seems that Weblogic has a development environment where a personal web server/servlet container is tigh开发者_如何学Ctly integrated with an Eclipse based IDE of theirs.

I think I might like to go that way eventually, but for right now I would like to keep using the IDE that I am used to.

Can someone point me to a tutorial or a book that would explain how to set up and use Weblogic that way on my computer?

For instance, I would produce a WAR file with my own tools, then stick it in a directory in Weblogic on my computer to run it and see how well it works.

Thanks

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If you have not already downloaded WebLogic I would suggest getting started with the Zip Distribution. It is a smaller distribution than the full installer and you can get it up and running quickly. Here's a YouTube demo of the Zip Distribution: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHX_ej3ajcI

WebLogic also has support for ANT and Maven, so if you are using those to build and package your applications then you can automate deployment with them as well. Here's a demo and info on the WebLogic Maven Plugin: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcwcGtz0dyc

I use IntelliJ to do development and use the Maven Plugin to deploy directly to WebLogic.

Update: here's a quick demo and overview of setting up WLS JDBC and JMS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxddHY3hf3c

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One option may be to use Cargo to help manage the deployment from a Maven build via the Cargo Maven plugin. Combine that with JRebel and you'll have a nice, state-of-the-art development solution.