Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g Architecture and Management
by Reza Shafii, Stephen Lee, Gangadhar Konduri
JDBC Services
Java EE applications access the database through JDBC data sources that abstract the database integration and connection management for them. A WebLogic Server JDBC data source encapsulates a JDBC driver, a set of connection information—pointing to a specific schema within an RDBMS of the type matching the data source’s driver—and a pool of active connections to the schema that is referred to by the connection information. Figure 2-2 illustrates the main elements of a WebLogic JDBC data source.
Upon startup, each WebLogic Server instance initiates its configured data sources with a certain number of active connections. Data sources are accessed by clients through a JNDI lookup, and the availability of the data source to a client’s ...
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