Introducing Oracle WebLogic Server

The concepts of a server instance, domain, and cluster are fundamental to the understanding of WebLogic Server, and we begin this section with their overview. We then discuss the WebLogic Server installation and domain artifacts and finally end the section with an overview of domain startup options.

Servers, Clusters, and Domains

A WebLogic Server instance is a Java Virtual Machine (VM) process executing the code that provides all of the APIs and services mandated by the Java EE specification as well as WebLogic specific extensions. Java applications created by development teams who are in turn using the Java EE specification and WebLogic-specific APIs are deployed to and executed by a server instance. The ...

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