Configuring Your Domain Using the Configuration Wizard

First you should understand what a domain is. In the real world, you can have more than one application running on any server. Now, each computer can have more than one server running on it, or many servers can be running on different computers. Again, each of these servers can have resources associated with it, or a common resource can be associated with all the servers in a cluster. These servers can be grouped into logical units, based either on their geographic locations or on their functions. Each such logical grouping is called a domain. Hence, a domain can contain one or more WebLogic Servers, along with their associated resources.

In WebLogic, each domain has a single config.xml

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