weblogic.Admin is no longer available starting with Oracle WebLogic Server 12c

Are you trying to use weblogic.Admin in Oracle WebLogic Server 12c but getting the error below?

oracle@soahost1:/home/oracle> cd $DOMAIN_HOME/bin 

oracle@soahost1:/u01/app/oracle/middleware/products/fmw1221/user_projects/domains/soa_domain/bin> . ./setDomainEnv.sh 

******************************************************* Setting up SOA specific environment...*****************************************************EXTRA_JAVA_PROPERTIES= -da:org.apache.xmlbeans....LD_LIBRARY_PATH=::/u01/app/oracle/middleware/products/fmw1221/wlserver/server/native/linux/x86_64:/u01/app/oracle/middleware/products/fmw1221/wlserver/server/native/linux/x86_64/oci920_8..******************************************************* End SOA specific environment setup***************************************************** 

oracle@soahost1:/u01/app/oracle/middleware/products/fmw1221/user_projects/domains/soa_domain> java weblogic.Admin -adminurl t3://soahost1:7001 -username weblogic -password welcome1 PING 

Error: Could not find or load main class weblogic.Admin

The weblogic.Admin tool is deprecated since version 9 and is no longer available starting with Oracle WebLogic Server 12c. WLST is the recommended option now.

References:

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/37538858/using-weblogic-admin-in-weblogic-12c

Applicable Versions:

• Oracle WebLogic Server 12c