BEA™ WebLogic® 7 Server Administration ABOUT THE AUTHORS Ali Akbarworks as a software engineer at BEA Systems. He has vast experience on distributed technologies such as CORBA and J2EE. He enjoys reading at leisure. Ali is married and lives with his wife in Nashua, New Hampshire. After working with Tata McGraw-Hill on a number of projects as an author and with Wrox Press Ltd., Friends of ED, SAMS, and New Riders Press as technical reviewer, Keyur Shahhas now joined hands with McGraw-Hill on this project. He is a Sun CertifiedJavaProgrammerwithallmajorMicrosoftCertifications,suchasMCP, MCSE, MCSD, MCDBA, MCP+I, and MCSE+I. Keyur is currently rendering services to Verizon Communications, USA as Team Lead on the Consumer EOrdering Enterprise Application.Hehasveryextensiveexperienceintrainingprofessionalsandtech mentoring,andprovidesconsultingservicesfornumeroussoftwareapplication development projects. He can be reached at [email protected]. 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AT A GLANCE ❖ 1 WebLogic Server Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 ❖ 2 WebLogic Application Server Installation and Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 ❖ 3 WebLogic Console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 ❖ 4 Application Deployment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 ❖ 5 WebLogic and J2EE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 ❖ 6 Application Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 ❖ 7 WebLogic Server and HTTP Servers . . . . . . . . 207 ❖ 8 WebLogic Clustering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229 ❖ 9 WebLogic Performance Tuning . . . . . . . . . . . 255 ❖ 10 WebLogic Node Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275 ❖ 11 WebLogic Management Architecture . . . . . . . . 289 ❖ 12 Administration Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305 ❖ 13 WebLogic Integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331 ❖ 14 WebLogic E-Business Platform . . . . . . . . . . . 351 ❖ 15 WebLogic Third-Party Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363 ❖ A Troubleshooting Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379 ❖ B Administration Best Practices . . . . . . . . . . . . 387 ❖ C A Real-Life Server Configuration . . . . . . . . . . 391 ❖ Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399 ❖ Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405 Copyright 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. 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