Deploy shared library without Application downtime

Recently I came across blog post from Andreas Koop who explained very well how Application downtime can be avoided if we use Shared library approach.

Refer to his post:

http://multikoop.blogspot.com/2013/06/production-redeployment-with-adf-shared.html


http://multikoop.blogspot.de/2013/06/weblogic-application-redeployment-using.html

When you want master application to refer latest shared library reference, just select the master application & click on "Update" to pick new shared library changes

On top of this, I would like to clarify when you need to make entry in weblogic.xml versus weblogic-application.xml

weblogic.xml: All your web shared library references goes into this file. If you try to refer a library that is not a web library then you will get exception as below:

weblogic-application.xml: Rest all java library references goes into this file. If you try to refer a web shared library then you will get exception as below:

Feel free to comment.