Oracle WebLogic Server 11g Administration Handbook

Deployment Order

When you are working to deploy an application on WebLogic Server in development or for the first time in production, you'll necessarily do it in an order where you deploy resources and applications that are your building blocks first and deploy the dependent resources and applications later. If you were using JMS to communicate between two applications, you would deploy the JMS queues and topics first, and the applications next. When starting a server instance, it's important that this ordering is somehow preserved. As a general rule, there is a well known order that covers which groupings of deployable entities are deployed in what order. In general, the WebLogic Server deploys applications and resources the following order: ...