Oracle WebLogic Server 11g Administration Handbook

Using the Lock & Edit Mechanism in the Administration Console

When you make configuration changes through the Administration Console, you're changing the editable configuration MBeans. Changing configuration is a two-step process: you must first obtain a lock on the configuration MBean edit tree by using the Lock & Edit feature in the Administration Console. The lock ensures that your changes are saved to the config.xml file and other configuration files in the domain directory. Once you make your changes, you must then activate the changes. Once you activate the configuration changes, all running servers will update their own copy of the domain's config.xml file as well as their read-only configuration MBeans. This completes the configuration ...