WebLogic Server "Root Directory" - documented wrong!?
While reading Oracle press book "Oracle WebLogic Server 11g Administration Handbook" by Sam R. Alapati I found one interesting note - "Server's default root directory will be WL_HOME\common\nodemanager".
I logged onto Admin console and navigate to managed server's "Server Start" tab for documentation and I found it saying "If you do not specify a Root Directory value, the domain directory is used by default."
Now, I created a new managed server and tried starting it from console - Interestingly it failed with state "FAILED_NOT_RESTARTABLE" and no other information on console.
I see this error in the node manager log - "java.io.IOException: Executable C:\Oracle\Middleware\wlserver_10.3\common\bin\bin\startWebLogic.cmd does not exist"