Technical data
Starting the WebLogic Administration Server
Administration Guide 2-9
where domain_name is the name of the domain. This will also be the 
subdirectory which has the configuration file that will be used to boot the 
domain.
The configuration repository consists of the domains under the 
/config 
directory. The configuration repository may contain a variety of possible domain 
configurations. Each such domain is located under a separate subdirectory, with 
the subdirectory name being the name of that domain. When you specify 
domain_name you are thus specifying this subdirectory name. The subdirectory 
thus specified contains the XML configuration file (
config.xml) and the 
security resources for that domain. The file 
config.xml specifies the 
configuration for that domain. 
The domain configuration with which the Administration Server is started 
becomes the active domain. Only one domain can be active.
n If you want to override the default WebLogic Server stream handler for HTTP 
and HTTPS protocols, create an implementation of 
java.net.URLStreamHandlerFactory and specify it on the command line 
like this:
-Dweblogic.net.http.URLStreamHandlerFactory=factory_class
The factory class must be specified on the command line because a factory can 
be set only once for each URL protocol per JVM instance. Your factory class 
must have a 
main() method which can perform any one-time initialization 
required, and then must call 
java.net.URL.setURLStreamHandlerFactory() 
with an instance of the class.
Your factory must implement the 
createURLStreamHandler() method, which 
returns an instance of your custom 
java.net.URLStreamHandler 
implementation for arguments of “http” and “https”. For other all other 
protocols, it should return null. See the Javadocs for 
java.net.URL for details 
about how the URLStreamHandlerFactory is located. 
n You can also specify values for WebLogic Server configuration attributes on the 
command line. These values become the runtime value for that attribute, and any 
value stored in the persistent configuration is ignored. The format for setting a 
runtime value for a WebLogic Server attribute on the command line is:
-Dweblogic.attribute=value
n The auto-deployment feature, which is turned on by default, does polling of the 
\applications directory of the active domain to detect changes in deployed 
applications. This feature only works on the Administration Server, because the 










