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Why does WebLogic behave so badly with symbolic links to JAVA_HOME?

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Current version is 12.2, but this issue has been nagging me since WebLogic 10.3.

I've been working with WebLogic for 12 years now, and the one thing that's really been a major hassle is the way that WebLogic deals with JAVA_HOME. If you install your java into (say) /apps/jdk_1.8.0_251 and create a symbolic link from this to /apps/java, then tell WebLogic that your java is in /apps/java, it will translate the link into the real directory name instead of using the link name. I know of no other piece of software that goes this far out if its way to make a simple thing difficult by translating the symbolic link into the real directory. It makes everyone's job it is to administer a virtual living hell when a java upgrade is

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