What are the common dependencies of Weblogic 8.1.6

Question

We still have to use Weblogic 8.1.6. There are some libraries packaged with the server, in common/lib but unfortunately there is only a 3rdparty.jar inside it. The libraries take precedence, so if we use e.g. Apache Commons Lang 2.4 we get a MethodNotFoundError at runtime.

So what exactly is inside the 3rdparty.jar and which versions?

If we would know we could define a POM with the weblogic common dependencies and "freeze" their version numbers, to see incompatibilities at compile time rather than runtime.

As I found out after more investigations, 3rdparty.jar is not used, but most 3rd party libraries are packed into the weblogic.jar itself.

Answer 1

Look inside the jar - it should be obvious what classes are there. I don't have access to WebLogic but there should be some form of manifest inside which describes the packages and their versions.

Answer 2

After a lot of searching I found some dependencies for WebLogic Server 8.1.6.0 SP6: It is J2EE 1.3 compliant, and from the javax stuff it contains:

• javax.activation - JAF 1.0.2 (21.5.1999)
• javax.connector - J2EE Connector 1.0
• javax.ejb - EJB 1.1 & 2.0 (30.11.2001)
• javax.jms - JMS 1.0.2b
• javax.mail - JavaMail 1.2 (28.6.2002)
• javax.management - JMX 1.0 (16.5.2006)
• javax.net
• javax.servlet Java Servlets 2.3, JSP 1.2 (7.11.2001)
• javax.jts/javax.transaction (jta) - Java Transaction API (JTA) 1.0, 1.0.1b, 1.2 ?
• javax.xml.messaging/soap/rpc - JAX-RPC 1.0

Weblogic documentation and the weblogic.jar give further:

• Ant 1.5.3
• org.apache.oro - Jakarta-oro 2.0.7
• antlr - Antlr 2.7.1
• com.sybase.jdbc - Sybase jConnect for JDBC 2.0 version 5.5 ?
• Oracle JDBC Driver 10.2.0.2.0
• com.rsa.certj - Cert-J 2.0.2 from certicom
• com.certicom - Certicom SSL 3.1.14
• com.rsa.jsafe - RSA Crypto-J 3.5 (Crypto-J.jsafefips.extension)
• netscape.ldap - Netscape LDAP 3.1
• com.adventnet - AdventNet SNMP 3.2.2 SP1
• org.mozilla.javascript/classfile - JavaScript 1.5 from Mozilla
• com.linar - JCom from J-Integra
• com.octetstring - Octetstring 1.5
• org.w3c.dom.ls/ranges - JAXP 1.1
• org.apache.xerces.dom3 - Apache Xerces DOM
• PointBase 4.3 (not found in jars)
• Acumen UDDI (not found in jars)
• net.n3.nanoxml - ?
• com.netscape.sasl - ?
• Jython