Overview: BEA Workshop for WebLogic Platform

Workshop for WebLogic helps you develop enterprise-level applications. The diagram below shows the types of applications you can build with Workshop for WebLogic, along with the technologies that support them. Click on the component blocks to see more detailed information for each area.

There are two major components exposed through the IDE:

• Runtime Workshop for WebLogic includes extensive runtime libraries that implement support for the application components. Applications developed in Workshop for WebLogic run servers such as BEA WebLogic Server and include standard WebLogic Server libraries, Apache Beehive, and other runtime support implemented within Workshop for WebLogic.
• Applications Workshop for WebLogic provides tooling that works with the runtime components to simplify development of a variety of web and enterprise applications which include components built from JSP, JSF, page flows, web services, EJBs and controls.

This documentation set describes the application development features and tooling provided by Workshop for WebLogic to implement and deploy enterprise applications.

One of the best places to start learning about Workshop for WebLogic is with the tutorials provided in this documentation. See Tutorials in Workshop for WebLogic for descriptions of the tutorials included in this documentation.

You can also start by taking a look at sample code. Workshop for WebLogic Samples provides an introduction to the samples included in this release.