WLS is a Java application server. One of the biggest benefits from WLS hosting JEE applications (such as BI Publisher and other Oracle-BI-related applications) is the performance gain achieved by reducing the opening and closing of database connections via leveraging connection pools. WLS controls the connection pooling. The deployed JEE applications typically access the JDBC data-source connections created in the Data Sources area of WLS by calling the JNDI name associated with the JDBC connection:
From the left-hand-pane navigation menu, expand
bi>Services.Click on Data Sources.
The resulting page is the Summary of JDBC Data Sources management area. Here are the application server-registered Data Sources, which can be leveraged by one or more applications deployed on the WebLogic Server.
On the Data Sources table, look at the column, Targets. As you can see, each of these Data Sources is deployed to (that is, accessible from) the server names listed in...