BEA® WebLogic Platform 7

Chapter 8. Deriving Application Infrastructure

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

—Antoine de Saint-Exupery

In This Chapter

• Introducing Application Infrastructure

• Understanding the Need for Application Infrastructure

• Examining an Organization’s Application Infrastructure Reality

• Deriving an Application Infrastructure Strategy

• Implementing the Software Platform Solution to Application Infrastructure

• Employing BEA’s Unified, Simplified, and Extensible Formula for Application Infrastructure: WebLogic Platform 7.0

Introducing Application Infrastructure

In search of competitive advantages over their industry peers, organizations are pioneering innovative technical and Web-centric solutions ...