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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

Using Cluster and Managed Servers


For those who don't have English as their mother language, it can be surprising to discover that the word 'cluster' is actually a noun and a verb; it means a group of similar objects growing closely together (noun) and, also, congregating or being part of a group (verb). Of course, nowadays, the term is popular as computer clusters have become widespread.

Based on that, WebLogic Server cluster or clusters basically means that a group of servers will work together, running at the same time, toward some predefined architectural goals. Clusters can be created to cater to different needs of users, such as scalability, reliability, performance, load balancing, failover, and management. Note that WebLogic clusters can be defined by multiple machines and servers (Managed Servers) but they may also be seen as one single WebLogic Server for applications and clients.

Clustering is a key concept in application scalability and needs to be used in order to scale out (horizontally...