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Contents Preface ............................................................................................................................................................... xiii Documentation Accessibility................................................................................................................... xiii Conventions ............................................................................................................................................... xiii 1 Overview of WebLogic Server Application Development 1.1 Document Scope and Audience................................................................................................ 1-1 1.2 WebLogic Server and the Java EE Platform............................................................................ 1-2 1.3 Overview of Java EE Applications and Modules................................................................... 1-3 1.4 Web Application Modules......................................................................................................... 1-3 1.4.1 Servlets .................................................................................................................................. 1-3 1.4.2 JavaServer Pages .................................................................................................................. 1-3 1.4.3 More Information on Web Application Modules ........................................................... 1-4 1.5 Enterprise JavaBean Modules ................................................................................................... 1-4 1.5.1 EJB Documentation in WebLogic Server.......................................................................... 1-4 1.5.2 Additional EJB Information ............................................................................................... 1-4 1.6 Connector Modules .................................................................................................................... 1-5 1.7 Enterprise Applications ............................................................................................................. 1-5 1.7.1 Java EE Programming Model............................................................................................. 1-5 1.7.2 Packaging and Deployment Overview ............................................................................ 1-5 1.8 WebLogic Web Services............................................................................................................. 1-6 1.9 JMS and JDBC Modules ............................................................................................................. 1-7 1.10 WebLogic Diagnostic Framework Modules ........................................................................... 1-7 1.10.1 Using an External Diagnostics Descriptor ....................................................................... 1-8 1.10.1.1 Defining an External Diagnostics Descriptor ........................................................... 1-8 1.11 Coherence Grid Archive (GAR) Modules ............................................................................... 1-8 1.12 Bean Validation ........................................................................................................................... 1-8 1.13 XML Deployment Descriptors .................................................................................................. 1-9 1.13.1 Automatically Generating Deployment Descriptors................................................... 1-14 1.13.2 EJBGen................................................................................................................................ 1-14 1.13.3 Java-based Command-line Utilities ............................................................................... 1-14 1.13.4 Upgrading Deployment Descriptors From Previous Releases of Java EE and WebLogic Server............................................................................................................... 1-15 1.14 Deployment Plans.................................................................................................................... 1-15 1.15 Development Tools.................................................................................................................. 1-16 1.15.1 Java API Reference and the wls-api.jar File .................................................................. 1-16 1.15.1.1 Using the wls-api.jar File.......................................................................................... 1-17 iii 1.15.1.2 Using the weblogic.jar File ....................................................................................... 1-17 1.15.2 Apache Ant........................................................................................................................ 1-17 1.15.2.1 Using a Third-Party Version of Ant........................................................................ 1-18 1.15.2.2 Changing the Ant Heap Size.................................................................................... 1-18 1.15.3 Source Code Editor or IDE .............................................................................................. 1-19 1.15.4 Database System and JDBC Driver ................................................................................ 1-19 1.15.5 Web Browser ..................................................................................................................... 1-19 1.15.6 Third-Party Software........................................................................................................ 1-19 1.16 New and Changed Features in this Release......................................................................... 1-20 2 Using Ant Tasks to Configure and Use a WebLogic Server Domain 2.1 Overview of Configuring and Starting Domains Using Ant Tasks .................................... 2-1 2.2 Starting Servers and Creating Domains Using the wlserver Ant Task............................... 2-2