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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 WebLogic Server


Oracle WebLogic Server's installation is pretty straightforward; we just need to pay attention to the Java SDK selection in order to use the one we just installed.

  1. Navigate to the download page at http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/weblogic/downloads/index.html.

  2. Click on the Accept License Agreement option button.

  3. Right below the option box, there's a drop-down list with five entries. Select the entry Generic WebLogic Server and Coherence installer (880MB) and click on the Download File button.

    Note

    Another option is to download the zip distribution; with barely one fifth the size of the generic installer, it includes all core artifacts, leaving out samples, the Derby database, and web server plugins, among other features. Also, there's no way to apply patches to this installation.

    If bandwidth is a concern, go ahead and get this file instead of the generic one. Check the README.txt file inside the package for instructions on how to install and configure...