Understanding Domain Configuration

Introduction and Roadmap

This document describes Oracle WebLogic Server domains and how they are configured. A domain is the basic administration unit for WebLogic Server. A domain consists of one or more WebLogic Server instances (and their associated resources) that you manage with a single Administration Server.

The following sections describe the contents and organization of this guide—Understanding Domain Configuration.

• Document Scope and Audience

• Guide to this Document

• Related Documentation

• Samples and Tutorials

• New and Changed Features in This Release

 

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Document Scope and Audience

This document is written mainly for Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) system architects, application developers, and system administrators who are developing or deploying Web-based applications on one or more WebLogic Server domains.

The topics in this document are relevant during the design and development phases of a software project. This document does not address production phase administration, monitoring, or performance tuning topics. For links to WebLogic Server documentation and resources for these topics, see Related Documentation.

It is assumed that the reader is familiar with Java EE, basic concepts of XML, and general networking and application management concepts.

 

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Guide to this Document

• This chapter, Introduction and Roadmap, introduces the purpose, organization, and context of this guide.

• Understanding WebLogic Server Domains, introduces WebLogic Server domains.

• Domain Configuration Files, describes the configuration and directories that maintain the on-disk representation of a domain and its contents.

• Managing Configuration Changes, describes change management features in WebLogic Server.

 

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Related Documentation

For information about system administration tasks and the various tools you can use to perform them, see:

• The System Administration for Oracle WebLogic Server documentation page

• Overview of WebLogic Server System Administration in Introduction to Oracle WebLogic Server

• Monitoring and Managing with the Java EE Management APIs

• WebLogic Server MBean Reference

• WebLogic SNMP Management Guide

For more detailed information about tools you can use to create and configure WebLogic Server domains, see:

• Creating WebLogic Domains Using the Configuration Wizard

• WebLogic Scripting Tool

• Developing Custom Management Utilities with JMX

• WebLogic Server Command Reference

• Administration Console Online Help

 

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Samples and Tutorials

In addition to this document, Oracle provides code samples that are relevant to domain configuration and administration.

• The WebLogic Scripting Tool (WLST) examples show how to automate the creation of domains using WLST. See WLST Sample Scripts in WebLogic Scripting Tool.

• The Avitek Medical Records Sample Application is a WebLogic Server sample application suite that concisely demonstrates all aspects of the Java EE platform. To start this sample application, invoke the startWeblogic script in:
  WL_HOME/samples/domains/medrec
  where WL_HOME is the directory in which you installed WebLogic Server.

 

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New and Changed Features in This Release

For a comprehensive listing of the new WebLogic Server features introduced in this release, see “What's New in WebLogic Server” in Release Notes.