installation notes and $h!t on how to create windows service weblogic admin server...this has been verified on weblogic 10.3.6 but i believe it will work for any 10.3.x version of weblogic. *** CHANGE ANY VALUES IN BLUE TO MATCH YOUR OWN VALUES 

1. Create a folder to keep all your windows service related files in, i created a winservices folder in my domain

   C:\oracle\user_projects\domains\devtwo_domain\winservices

2. Create a cmd file named createAdminWinService.cmd in the winservices folder with the following contents

   echo offSETLOCALset DOMAIN_NAME=devtwo_domainset USERDOMAIN_HOME=c:\oracle\user_projects\domains\devtwo_domainset SERVER_NAME=AdminServercall "c:\oracle\wlserver_10.3\server\bin\installSvc.cmd"ENDLOCAL

3. Go to the WL_HOME\server\bin directory - in my case it's c:\oracle\wlserver_10.3\server\binBackup installSvc.cmdThen edit installSvc.cmd to contain the following changes

   ...set WL_HOME=C:\app\oracle\product\fmw\wlserver_10.3@rem call "%WL_HOME%\common\bin\commEnv.cmd"call %USERDOMAIN_HOME%\bin\setDomainEnv.cmd...set CLASSPATH=%WEBLOGIC_CLASSPATH%;%CLASSPATH%;C:\oracle\user_projects\domains\devtwo_domain\winservices...rem *** Install the service"%WL_HOME%\server\bin\beasvc" -install -svcname:"beasvc %DOMAIN_NAME%_%SERVER_NAME%" -stopclass:ServerStopper -javahome:"%JAVA_HOME%" -execdir:"%USERDOMAIN_HOME%" -maxconnectretries:"%MAX_CONNECT_RETRIES%" -host:"%HOST%" -port:"%PORT%" -extrapath:"%EXTRAPATH%" -password:"%WLS_PW%" -cmdline:%CMDLINE%  -log:"c:\oracle\user_projects\domains\devtwo_domain\servers\AdminServer\logs\AdminServer-stdout.log"

4. Create ServerStopper.java with the following contents in your winservices folder

   import java.io.File;import java.net.URL;import java.net.URLClassLoader;import java.util.Set;import java.util.Iterator;import java.rmi.RemoteException;import javax.naming.Context;import javax.management.ObjectName;import weblogic.jndi.Environment;import weblogic.management.MBeanHome;import weblogic.management.WebLogicMBean;import weblogic.management.configuration.ServerMBean;import weblogic.management.runtime.ServerRuntimeMBean;import weblogic.management.runtime.ServerStates;import weblogic.management.WebLogicObjectName;public class ServerStopper {public static void stop() throws Exception {MBeanHome home = null;\\url of the Admin serverString url = "t3:\\localhost:7001";String username = "weblogic";String password = "password";ServerRuntimeMBean serverRuntime = null;Set mbeanSet = null;Iterator mbeanIterator = null;try {\\ Set ContextClassloader to prevent assertionsURL[] urls = { new File("\").toURL() };Thread.currentThread().setContextClassLoader(newURLClassLoader(urls));Environment env = new Environment();env.setProviderUrl(url);env.setSecurityPrincipal(username);env.setSecurityCredentials(password);Context ctx = env.getInitialContext();home = (MBeanHome)ctx.lookup("weblogic.management.adminhome");mbeanSet = home.getMBeansByType("ServerRuntime");mbeanIterator = mbeanSet.iterator();while(mbeanIterator.hasNext()) {serverRuntime = (ServerRuntimeMBean)mbeanIterator.next();if(serverRuntime.getState().equals(ServerStates.RUNNING)){serverRuntime.shutdown();}}} catch (Exception e) {e.printStackTrace();}}}

5. Compile the class file by opening a command prompt and performing the following

   cd C:\oracle\user_projects\domains\devtwo_domain\winservicesset CLASSPATH=c:\wlserver_10.3\server\lib\weblogic.jarjavac ServerStopper.java

   If you are working with Weblogic 12c, your weblogic.jar will be in a location something like:C:\wlserver_12.1\server\lib\weblogic.jarNote: the java class file contains some deprecated items. so you will see some warnings but it should be OK for now:

6. Run createAdminWinService.cmd, open a command prompt as Administrator and run the file - example:

   cd c:\oracle\user_projects\domains\devtwo_domain\winservicescreateAdminWinService.cmd

7. You should now have a service in your Windows Services a service called "beasvc domainname_AdminServer" (in later versions of Weblogic like 12c it will start with something like wlsvc - see image below)
8. Test the service by starting it and accessing the Weblogic Administration Console.Also test stopping the service through Windows Services.