Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g Architecture and Management

CHAPTER 3Fusion Middleware Common Infrastructure

Oracle has built a set of components that together provide common services used by Fusion Middleware products. Not only do these services facilitate a consistent architecture, they also provide common management capabilities across the Fusion Middleware products. In this chapter we will examine the core elements of these common components, which we will refer to as the Fusion Middleware common infrastructure. In doing so, we will look at the services provided by this infrastructure and their relationship with the WebLogic Server services we discussed in the previous chapter. As we will see, the Fusion Middleware common infrastructure not only provides a rich set of capabilities for the layered ...