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Oracle Weblogic Server 11gR1 PS2: Administration Essentials

By : Michel Schildmeijer
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Oracle Weblogic Server 11gR1 PS2: Administration Essentials

By: Michel Schildmeijer

Overview of this book

<p>Oracle's WebLogic 11g Server is an application server for building and deploying enterprise Java EE applications. WebLogic's infrastructure supports the deployment of many types of distributed applications and is an ideal foundation for building applications based on a Service Oriented Architecture. This book will guide you through the important administration aspects of WebLogic server.</p> <p><i>Oracle WebLogic Server 11gR1 PS2: Administration Essentials</i> is a focused step-by-step tutorial that provides an overview of the important administrative tasks performed by WebLogic Server administrators.</p> <p>This book will teach administrators the techniques for installing and configuring Oracle WebLogic Server and how to deploy Java EE applications using the Administration Console, command-line interface, and scripting tools such as WLST. It starts with a good overview of the techniques needed in the middleware world of today. Clear explanations of definitions and concepts of JEE and how Oracle WebLogic fits into this picture are also provided. The book then dives into performing routine Oracle WebLogic server administration functions, and how to deploy different types of Java EE applications to WebLogic server.</p>
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Oracle WebLogic Server 11gR1 PS2: Administration Essentials
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
3
Oracle WebLogic Software Installed; What's Next?
6
Deploy Your Applications in Oracle WebLogic
7
Connecting to the Outside World: JDBC and JMS
8
Making your WebLogic Mission-Critical: Clustering
Index

Chapter 2. The Beginning: Planning and Installation

Congratulations! The management has given you the green light to proceed with Oracle WebLogic. So now you will have to arrange for some important things before you can start your first installation.

The first thing you do is go and talk to the Operating Systems Administration department to choose the right hardware and operating system, based on the specifications Oracle WebLogic needs.