Before we begin...

• I am using an OSx 10.9 mac and connecting externally to my weblogic 10.3.6, which resides on my RHEL 6.x virtual machine, which is currently installed on my mac
• You must however determine which weblogic version you're using

In order to integrate your eclipse IDE with an external weblogic server, you MUST first install the WLS Zip Distribution on your local computer. This is a bite-size version of the WLS domain deployment, which contains all to goodies to develop and test on WLS server. You also need to ensure that you're downloading the specific WLS version as described above

Download it, unzip it, then place the folder an a permanent location (Mine is in my home directory)

Then you need to then download the plugin repository from the Oracle website

http://download.oracle.com/otn_software/oepe/12.1.3.3.1/luna/repository/

After that, open up a terminal window and run the following commands. You may need to alter based on your current locations

export JAVA_HOME=/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6/Home
export MW_HOME=/Users/danielredfern/wls1036_dev
export USER_MEM_ARGS="-Xmx512m -XX:PermSize=128m"

After that and within the same terminal, perform the following commands:

cd $MW_HOME ./configure.sh

Once performed, you'll see a BUILD SUCCESSFUL if all is... well, successful

You then need to run the following command and receive a response saying, Your environment has been set

. $MW_HOME/wlserver/server/bin/setWLSEnv.sh

You then need to create a new WLS domain and start WLS. It is also recommended that you create the domains outside the MW_HOME

mkdir /Users/danielredfern/devDomain
cd /home/myhome/mydomain
$JAVA_HOME/bin/java -Xmx1024m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m weblogic.Server

Note: you may be asked that that config.xml was found and 'Would you like the server to create a default configuration and boot? (y/n):', click yes

After the WLS server is up and running within the WLS server, you can then jump back into eclipse and within the server window, right click and select 'new server'. You can see this within the window, show view, server.

You should then select the weblogic home as well as the java home. These are the parameters you used before.

Once you've done that, select the WLS version and enter in teh server name. This is only the name and not specifically a configuration setting

After that, click on the remote server button and enter in the setting of your remote instance. Assuming that it's up and running, you should get a successful test connection

Then any current resources can be moved over

once that's all been done, you could then setup your initial context configuration to access your remote WLS connections

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