Good Article on WebLogic Deployment Plans
In WLS, deployment plans let you change the values in deployment descriptors at deployment time. This is really handy when you want to move your deployment archives from one environment to the next (i.e., from Staging to Production) and need different settings based on the environment. Maxence Button blogged an excellent how-to at http://m-button.blogspot.com/2008/08/how-to-use-deployment-plan.html
Tags: administration, DD, deployemnt descriptors, deployment, J2EE, WLS