Configure WebLogic Resource Adapters with ANT

When you use a JCA adapter in Oracle SOA Suite or OSB then you know that you need to configure a plan of some WebLogic Resource Adapter.  With this ANT script I tried to make this an easy task for you and which you can repeat on different WebLogic Domains. This ANT script can easily add multiple EIS entries to the following adapters: DbAdapter, AqAdapter and JmsAdapter in just one run. After these changes to the resource plans this script will redeploy only the changed Resource Adapter.

Special thanks for my colleague Michel Schildmeijer for inspiring me to make this flexible script and off course for the necessary WLST code.

Important to know.

• Run this script on the AdminServer, else it won't find the Resource Adapter Plans
• First you need to create a Plan for the 3 Resource Adapters (Db,Aq,Jms) and add a dummy entry, think how you name it and where you put it.
• When a plan is changed and you have a soa cluster or the soa weblogic instance is running on a different server then you need to copy the plan to all servers or put it on a shared storage.    

If you don't like this then you can always create new Resource Adapters by following this blogpost.

Let's explain how it works

first you need to change some variables in this build.properties

default this scripts runs against the weblogic dev settings.  You can change this to your own and configure the dev entries ( dev entries at the bottom of the build.properties )

wls.environment=dev

Where are the adapter rars located in your FMW domain, this can be in your SOA or OSB Home of the FMW domain.
connectorLocation=C:/oracle/MiddlewarePS3/Oracle_SOA1/soa/connectors/

Then add your own EIS entries, these ones in this var will be added to weblogic.
resourceAdapterEntries=hrDB,hrAQ,cf1JMS,cf2JMS

Think if you need to set the XA or Not XA datasource property or in Jms the connectionFactoryLocation.

# AQ entry

hrAQ.type=aq

hrAQ.eisName=eis/AQ/hr2

hrAQ.property=xADataSourceName

hrAQ.value=jdbc/hrDS

# DB entry

hrDB.type=db

hrDB.eisName=eis/DB/hr2

hrDB.property=dataSourceName

hrDB.value=jdbc/hrDS

# JMS entries

cf1JMS.type=jms

cf1JMS.eisName=eis/JMS/hr3

cf1JMS.property=ConnectionFactoryLocation

cf1JMS.value=jms/MyCF

After you can run the ANT script 

ant -f build.xml createResourceAdapterEntries 

Here you can download the code on github

https://github.com/biemond/soa_tools/tree/master/ant_resourceAdapter

Here is the whole build.properties file 

The wlst part with the wlRedeployResourceAdapter and wlCreateResourceAdapter macrodefs

And at last the build.xml