Getting Started with Oracle WebLogic Server 12c: Developer's Guide

Fabio Mazanatti Nunes, William Markito Oliveira

• Éditeur: Packt Publishing
• Année: 2013
• ISBN:
  9781849686969
• Édition: 1
• Sujet: Computer Science
• Sous-sujet: Programming in Java

In Detail

Oracle WebLogic server has long been the most important, and most innovative, application server on the market. The updates in the 12c release have seen changes to the Java EE runtime and JDK version, providing developers and administrators more powerful and feature-packed functionalities.

Getting Started with Oracle WebLogic Server 12c: Developer's Guide provides a practical, hands-on, introduction to the application server, helping beginners and intermediate users alike get up to speed with Java EE development, using the Oracle application server.

Starting with an overview of the new features of JDK 7 and Java EE 6, Getting Started with Oracle WebLogic Server 12c quickly moves on to showing you how to set up a WebLogic development environment, by creating a domain and setting it up to deploy the application.

Once set up, we then explain how to use the key components of WebLogic Server, showing you how to apply them using a sample application that is continually developed throughout the chapters. On the way, we'll also be exploring Java EE 6 features such as context injection, persistence layer and transactions.

After the application has been built, you will then learn how to tune its performance with some expert WebLogic Server tips.

Approach

Getting Started with Oracle WebLogic Server 12c is a fast-paced and feature-packed book, designed to get you working with Java EE 6, JDK 7 and Oracle WebLogic Server 12c straight away, so start developing your own applications.

Who this book is for

Getting Started with Oracle WebLogic Server 12c: Developer's Guide is written for developers who are just getting started, or who have some experience, with Java EE who want to learn how to develop for and use Oracle WebLogic Server. Getting Started with Oracle WebLogic Server 12c: Developer's Guide also provides a great overview of the updated features of the 12c release, and how it integrates Java EE 6 and JDK 7 to remove boilerplate code.

Getting Started with Oracle WebLogic Server 12c: Developer's Guide

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Table of Contents

Getting Started with Oracle WebLogic Server 12c: Developer's Guide

Credits

About the Authors

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Overview of WebLogic Server 12c and Related Technologies

Introducing Oracle WebLogic Server 12c

WebLogic Server @ Oracle

Most relevant features

Overview of JDK 7

The Project Coin

The diamond operator

The try-with-resources statement

Strings in switch statements

Manipulating binary integral literals

Exception handling with multicatch statements

Delving into Java EE 6

Other technologies in the book

Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse

Oracle Coherence

PrimeFaces

MySQL

The Cloud Application Foundation (CAF)

Oracle Traffic Director

Oracle Tuxedo

Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder

Oracle Exalogic and WebLogic 12c

Web resources

Java and Java EE 6

WebLogic 12c

Coherence

Other tools

Summary

2. Setting Up the Environment

About the directory structure

Installing JDK 1.7

Installing Oracle WebLogic Server

Installing Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse (OEPE)

Installing MySQL

Installing on Linux using a package manager

Downloading and installing manually

Disabling case sensitivity for tables on Unix/Linux

Some Windows specifics

Configuring MySQL databases

Preparing PrimeFaces

Downloading the binaries

Creating a shared library

Setting up a WebLogic domain

Configuring Eclipse and OEPE

Linking WebLogic's runtime environment

Adding a reference to the PrimeFaces' shared library

Linking WebLogic Server's instance

Referencing MySQL databases

Creating WebLogic data sources

Adding database connections to Eclipse

Using OpenLDAP

Installing OpenLDAP

Configuring an OpenLDAP server

Loading sample entries and testing

Web resources

Summary

3. Java EE Basics – Persistence, Query, and Presentation

The business scenario – movie ticket system

Business entities of the system

Organizing projects in Eclipse

Creating the StoreBO project

Generating classes from database tables

Creating named queries

Tweaking the persistence.xml file

Packing the project

The Store web project

Adding references to PrimeFaces' shared library

Adding references to StoreBO

Referencing the persistence configuration file

Creating a named bean

Configuring the Web descriptor

Defining the test page

Deploying and testing the application

Web resources

Summary

4. Creating RESTful Services with JAX-RS

Creating Theater entities

Customizing the generated entities

Creating named queries

Preventing cyclic references

Formatting exhibitions' date and time

Completing the persistence.xml file

Packaging the library

Creating the Theater web application

Setting up the project

Enabling JAX-RS

Exposing RESTful Services through JAX-RS

Coding the API

Testing the web service

Creating the REST client

Configuring JAX-RS client libraries and optional package

Creating the web service consumer

Updating the SearchManager bean

Updating the query page

Structuring the web application

Applying templates through Facelets

Creating an entity listing page

Web resources

Summary

5. Singleton Bean, Validations, and SOAP Web Services

Using bean validation

About built-in constraints

Combining and grouping validation rules

Creating a custom constraint

Coding a constraint validator

Showing validation messages

Using the message component

PrimeFaces's Growl

Dealing with null and empty strings on JSF components

Singleton session beans

Implementing a singleton session bean

Understanding how to use the startup annotation

Establishing a startup and shutdown sequence

Dealing with concurrency when using singletons

Singleton applied to web services

Persisting an object using JPA

Understanding the available transaction contexts

Using container-managed transactions

Using bean-managed transactions

Acquiring a transaction context manually

A brief intermission

Web services and SOAP

The reservation web service

Testing the service provider

Consuming the service

Web resources

Summary

6. Using Events, Interceptors, and Logging Services

Understanding interceptors

Creating a log interceptor

Interceptors and Aspect Oriented Programming

Using asynchronous methods

Understanding WebLogic's logging service

Anatomy of a log message

Redirecting standard output to a log file

Integrating Log4J to WebLogic's logging services

Accessing and reading log files

Events

Defining audit events

Web resources

Summary

7. Remote Access with JMS

WebLogic clients

Thin T3 client – wlthint3client.jar

RMI thin client – wlclient.jar

JMS thin client – wljmsclient.jar

JMS SAF client – wlsafclient.jar

JMS T3 SAF client – wlsaft3client.jar

Full client – wlfullclient.jar

JMX client – wljmxclient.jar

Java Messaging Service (JMS) and WebLogic

The persistent store

The JMS server

The JMS module

The JMS subdeployment

The JMS queue

The JMS connection factory

Posting messages from a standalone client

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