WebLogic Maven Plugin - Simplest Example

I've seen a question or two in recent days on how to configure the weblogic maven plugin.

The official documentation is extensive ... but could be considered TL;DR for a quick bootstrapping on how to use it.

As a late friday afternoon exercise I just pushed out an example of a very simple project that uses the weblogic-maven-plugin to deploy a web module.  It's almost the simplest configuration that can be done of the plugin to perform deployment related operations of a project/module:

https://github.com/buttso/weblogic-maven-plugin

This relies on the presence of either a local/corporate repository that contains the set of weblogic artefacts and plugins - OR - you configure and use the Oracle Maven Repository instead.  

Example pom.xml

	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
	<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
	<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
	<groupId>buttso.demo.maven</groupId>
	<artifactId>plugindemo</artifactId>
	<version>1.0</version>
	<packaging>war</packaging>
	<name>plugindemo</name>
	<properties>
	<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
	</properties>
	<dependencies>
	<dependency>
	<groupId>javax</groupId>
	<artifactId>javaee-web-api</artifactId>
	<version>6.0</version>
	<scope>provided</scope>
	</dependency>
	</dependencies>
	<build>
	<plugins>
	<plugin>
	<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
	<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
	<version>2.3.2</version>
	<configuration>
	<source>1.8</source>
	<target>1.8</target>
	</configuration>
	</plugin>
	<plugin>
	<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
	<artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
	<version>2.1.1</version>
	<configuration>
	<failOnMissingWebXml>false</failOnMissingWebXml>
	</configuration>
	</plugin>
	<plugin>
	<groupId>com.oracle.weblogic</groupId>
	<artifactId>weblogic-maven-plugin</artifactId>
	<version>12.1.3-0-0</version>
	<!-- ## This is useful but optional, can all be specified on command line ## -->
	<configuration>
	<user>weblogic</user>
	<password>welcome1</password>
	<name>${project.build.finalName}</name>
	<source>${project.build.directory}/${project.build.finalName}.${project.packaging}</source>
	</configuration>
	<!-- ## Can also bind goals to execution phases for automatic execution ## -->
	<!--
	<executions>
	<execution>
	<id>up</id>
	<phase>pre-integration-test</phase>
	<goals>
	<goal>deploy</goal>
	</goals>
	</execution>
	<execution>
	<id>down</id>
	<phase>post-integration-test</phase>
	<goals>
	<goal>undeploy</goal>
	</goals>
	</execution>
	</executions>
	-->
	</plugin>
	</plugins>
	</build>
	</project>

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