Skip to Main Content
WebLogic: The Definitive Guide
book

WebLogic: The Definitive Guide

by Jon Mountjoy, Avinash Chugh
February 2004
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
848 pages
27h 25m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Content preview from WebLogic: The Definitive Guide

XML Application Scoping

The XML Application Scoping mechanism in WebLogic allows you to configure XML resources such as parsers, transformers, and entity resolvers on a per-application basis. This is different from the XML Registry settings that we covered earlier — they apply to a server instance and all applications running on it. An application-scoped XML configuration has two major benefits:

  • It allows you to configure different parsers for different applications. You can covertly change the parsers that will be used by the enterprise application simply by editing a deployment descriptor.

  • It makes the resultant EAR file less dependent on the server configuration. If you do not specify an application-scoped factory, the application is at the mercy of the target server. You need to ensure that all servers that will host the enterprise application are configured identically. A scoped XML configuration defined for an application EAR removes this dependence.

To use this mechanism, you have to include an XML deployment descriptor, weblogic-application.xml, within the META-INF directory of the application EAR file, as shown in Example 18-4. You also can use this descriptor file to configure application-specific parameters, JDBC pools, security settings, EJB-wide settings, etc. For now, we focus only on the XML configuration settings.

Example 18-4. A typical weblogic-application.xml configuration

<weblogic-application> <!-- ... rest of weblogic-application ... --> <xml> <parser-factory> ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

Building Microservices with Spring Boot, Second Edition

Building Microservices with Spring Boot, Second Edition

Josh Long / Phillip Webb
Spring Microservices in Action, Second Edition

Spring Microservices in Action, Second Edition

John Carnell, Illary Huaylupo Sanchez
Kubernetes: Up and Running, 2nd Edition

Kubernetes: Up and Running, 2nd Edition

Brendan Burns, Joe Beda, Kelsey Hightower
Learn OpenShift

Learn OpenShift

Denis Zuev, Artemii Kropachev, Aleksey Usov

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 059600432XErrata Page