WebLogic Server is its own application
Working with WLS in the context of Oracle BI for the first time, it is easy to miss the fact that WLS is its own Oracle product. In the case of Oracle BI 12c integration, it is WebLogic Server 12c. To exemplify WLS's ability to act as a standalone product, a company may license WebLogic Server Enterprise Edition solely to service their internally developed application (typically, Java/JEE) deployment needs. Here are a few items that often get overlooked:
As mentioned previously, after the default Oracle BI installation, a default set of users and groups is created in the WLS-embedded LDAP. The users and groups established by default here are a mix of users and groups for Oracle BI and the WebLogic Server application itself. Looking at the list of groups within the groups table, you see a group named Administrators, but also a group named BIAdministrators.
The Administrators group is specific to the WLS application. That is to say that a WLS user belonging...
