Organization
The first chapter provides a quick tour of WebLogic Server. It offers an overview of the J2EE and other enterprise features supported by WebLogic. We explore the fundamental WebLogic resources such as domains, servers, and clusters. We also look at essential administration tasks such as starting and stopping the server. The remaining chapters in the book can be grouped into three categories: those that deal with J2EE, those that deal with WebLogic management, and finally, those that focus on WebLogic’s own enterprise APIs.
WebLogic and J2EE
The first part of the book examines WebLogic’s rich support for the various J2EE services. WebLogic is a fully compliant J2EE application server, and it provides a mature environment for building robust, server-side, component-based applications.
Chapter 2 and Chapter 3 give in-depth coverage of how to build web applications on WebLogic. We examine how to configure servlets and JSP pages on WebLogic Server. We look at how to incorporate custom JSP tags and filters into your web applications, and we explain how to package and deploy your web applications on WebLogic. We also learn about WebLogic-specific custom tags and filters, and how to create tag libraries from prebuilt EJBs. We look at how to configure the behavior of the servlet engine (web container) using the XML deployment descriptors for a web application. We discuss how WebLogic manages server-side HTTP sessions in a clustered environment, how to restrict access to specific ...