Oracle WebLogic Server 12c: First Look -- Table of Contents -- Oracle WebLogic Server 12c: First Look -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more -- Why Subscribe? -- Free Access for Packt account holders -- Instant Updates on New Packt Books -- 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. Ready for the Cloud! -- The c is replacing the g -- WebLogic 12c supports over more than 200 new features! -- Overview and structure in the new features -- Java EE 6 support and development -- Java EE 6 features -- Development features -- Configuration and tooling -- Performance and failover -- Traffic management -- Enterprise Manager 12c -- Distributed caching -- Some more Exalogic features -- Summary -- 2. Supporting the Java EE 6 -- Java EE 6 applications for conventional and cloud deployment -- Major Java EE 6 API changes -- Java EE 6 specifications -- Contexts and Dependency Injection for Java EE (JSR 299) -- Java Server Faces (JSF) 2 -- Enterprise Java Beans 3.1 -- Admin console support for EJBs in a WAR -- EJB 3.1 annotation support -- Simplified deployment with annotation support -- Bean Validation 1.0 (JSR 303) -- Java Persistence API (JPA) 2 -- Servlets 3.0 -- Java API for RESTful Web Services (JSR 311) -- Java EE Connector Architecture 1.6 -- Deprecated APIs -- WebLogic 12c shared libraries and modules -- Java classes compatibility -- Summary -- 3. Deployment, Installation, and Configuration Features -- Develop, build, compile, and deploy on WebLogic 12c -- Lightweight development with WebLogic 12c -- Some hints and tips using development on WebLogic 12c -- Using FastSwap -- Using the wlx option.

Using WebLogic server tooling -- Standard Java IDE support -- Eclipse and Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse (12.1.1.0) -- NetBeans IDE 7.1 -- Other expected IDEs -- WebLogic 12c and Maven integration -- The project object model (POM) -- Advanced features of WebLogic Maven plugin -- Maven support for several IDEs -- Maven for Eclipse/OEPE -- NetBeans and Maven -- Classloading and the Classloading Analysis Tool (CAT) -- Overview of Java EE application Classpath -- Built-in WLS CAT (ClassLoading Analysis Tool) -- Deployment descriptor support for GlassFish Server -- Cloud development with WebLogic 12c -- Installation and upgrades with WebLogic 12c -- Upgrading to WebLogic 12c -- New configuration features in WebLogic 12c -- JDK 7 certification -- Administration Console -- NodeManager -- JDBC -- Security -- Resource Adapter security -- Java Authentication SPI for containers (JASPIC) support -- SSL -- Standalone clients -- Deprecated: weblogic.management.username and weblogic.management.password -- Web Services -- Exalogic features -- WebLogic 12c New feature TLog Store -- Summary -- 4. Integrated and External Services -- JDBC services -- Active GridLink and RAC integration -- Fan enabling -- New JDBC features for WebLogic 12c -- JMS Services -- Security services -- Java Authentication Service Provider Interface for Containers (JASPIC) support -- RSA JSSE Provider -- SSL Implementation -- Changes to SSLMBean -- JSSE/SSL -- TLS 1.2 support -- Better support for Single Sign-On with Microsoft Clients -- Web Services -- WebLogic Web Services with Java EE 6 -- WebLogic 12c and Jersey JAX-RS RI Version 1.9 -- Support for EclipseLink MOXy (JAXB) -- Summary -- 5. Integration and Management with Enterprise Manager 12c Cloud Control -- What is Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c? -- Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c system design.

WebLogic Server Management: New in Enterprise Manager 12c -- Configuration management features -- WebLogic Server 12c provisioning and cloning -- Automating discovery and detecting configuration changes -- WebLogic Server 12c monitoring -- Performance monitoring and diagnostics of WebLogic Server -- Customizable performance summaries -- Out-of-box metrics -- Metric Extensions -- Composite Application dashboard -- Request Monitoring -- JVM Diagnostics -- Middleware Diagnostics Advisor -- Diagnostic Snapshots -- Monitoring for deployed applications -- Application components dependency and performance -- Log Viewer -- Event monitoring -- Business Transaction Management -- Heap Analysis -- Integrated Cloud Stack Management -- Summary -- 6. Oracle WebLogic 12c to the Cloud: Exalogic -- What is Oracle Exalogic? -- Exabus -- Oracle Exalogic Cloud Software components -- Exalogic Cloud Software -- RDMA API: Oracle Tuxedo -- Tuxedo in the Oracle version -- Oracle Tuxedo's new or enhanced features -- Message Bus API: Oracle Coherence -- SDP API: WebLogic -- Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder -- Oracle Traffic Director -- Oracle WebLogic/Exalogic optimizations -- Increased server scalability, throughput, and responsiveness -- Server session replication performance -- Better Oracle RAC and Exadata integration -- Reduced Exalogic to Exadata response times -- Summary -- Index.