Best Practice for applying patches in WL 8.1

[Tim Troy]

Below is what I did to apply patches to WL 8.1 SP2. Is there a better way?
Best Practice? Thanks in advance.
1) Created directory.
C:\bea\weblogic81\server\lib\patches
2) Copied jar files to patches directory.
CR127930_81sp2.jar
CR124746_81sp2.jar
3) Modified startWebLogic.cmd to include jar files first in the classpath.
set
CLASSPATH=%WL_HOME%\server\lib\patches\CR124746_81sp2.jar;%WL_HOME%\server\l
ib\patches\CR127930_81sp2.jar;%WEBLOGIC_CLASSPATH%;%POINTBASE_CLASSPATH%;%JA
VA_HOME%\jre\lib\rt.jar;%WL_HOME%\server\lib\webservices.jar;%CLASSPATH%
4) Restarted server and saw in console that the patches were applied.

[Ashish Pagare]

I think what you did is the correct and clean way.
Just one comment you might want to seperate out the CLASSPATH in a separate script say setEnv.sh and invoke this script from all other scripts for example: start/stop scripts for all admin/amanged servers. That way you don't have to change the CLASSPATH in all the scripts every time you apply a patch.