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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

Installing Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse (OEPE)


The installation package we got doesn't come bundled with a development environment (Oracle JDeveloper, NetBeans, or Eclipse/OEPE). To create the book's applications, we decided to use Eclipse along with Oracle's application server plugin, OEPE, which is a great tool for Java EE development, integrating the IDE with WebLogic Server and other Java EE application servers. Perform the following steps to install it:

  1. Navigate to http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/eclipse/downloads/index.html.

  2. Click on the option button for Accept License Agreement, choose the Eclipse version that runs on your system, and click on it to start the download.

  3. After the download completes, unzip the installer in the directory $MW_HOME/oepe and it's done.

    Tip

    OEPE's newest version, 12.1.2.1, is based on Eclipse 4.3 Kepler, the most up-to-date version of Eclipse.