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Getting Started with Oracle WebLogic Server 12c: Developer's Guide

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Getting Started with Oracle WebLogic Server 12c: Developer's Guide

Overview of this book

Oracle WebLogic server has long been the most important, and most innovative, application server on the market. The updates in the 12c release have seen changes to the Java EE runtime and JDK version, providing developers and administrators more powerful and feature-packed functionalities. Getting Started with Oracle WebLogic Server 12c: Developer's Guide provides a practical, hands-on, introduction to the application server, helping beginners and intermediate users alike get up to speed with Java EE development, using the Oracle application server. Starting with an overview of the new features of JDK 7 and Java EE 6, Getting Started with Oracle WebLogic Server 12c quickly moves on to showing you how to set up a WebLogic development environment, by creating a domain and setting it up to deploy the application. Once set up, we then explain how to use the key components of WebLogic Server, showing you how to apply them using a sample application that is continually developed throughout the chapters. On the way, we'll also be exploring Java EE 6 features such as context injection, persistence layer and transactions. After the application has been built, you will then learn how to tune its performance with some expert WebLogic Server tips.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Getting Started with Oracle WebLogic Server 12c: Developer's Guide
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Signing up a user and OpenLDAP


The following diagram illustrates the overall security solution we're going to set up and use in this chapter:

Now let's walk through the actions involved.

  1. A visitor clicks on the Sign-up button and submits the form to create a new user.

  2. A JavaBean will interact with the JPA object and create the entry on the database.

  3. Concurrently, this JavaBean publishes a message on the JMS queue, possibly a protected WebLogic resource.

  4. Later, a Message Driven Bean (MDB) listening on the queue reads the message and submits the user information to the LDAP server, completing the user-provisioning process.

Due to the protected resource feature of the WebLogic server, this JMS queue can't be used by other systems, unless of course they match the security policy that will be created to protect the JMS queue.

Now that the solution is clear, let's do the implementation starting with the database step.

Creating a user on the database

We are going to implement a sign-up process so new users...