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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

WebLogic clients


Before we dive into the details of JMS, let's take a quick look at some of the client modules that are available for use when creating applications that access WebLogic Server's features but are attached to JVMs that aren't running a WebLogic Server instance. A client module library is just a JAR library that enables a set of WebLogic features such as access to EJBs, JMS components, and others. While developing an application that will access WebLogic, you must choose a client that's best for your scenario and distribute it along with your binaries.

In the following sections, we will see the most commonly adopted client libraries, along with their description.

Thin T3 client – wlthint3client.jar

T3 is the proprietary transport protocol used by WebLogic Server to carry data between its nodes, and can also be used by clients to communicate with the server. With this library attached to your project, you can execute the most common EJB-related actions such as JNDI lookup, transaction...