Welcome to Developing Applications with Oracle Coherence. This document provides contextual information, instructions, and examples that are designed to teach developers and architects how to use Coherence and develop Coherence-based applications.
Developing Applications with Oracle Coherence is intended for the following audiences:
Primary Audience – Application developers who want to understand core Oracle Coherence concepts and want to build applications that leverage an Oracle Coherence data grid.
Secondary Audience – System architects who want to understand core Oracle Coherence concepts and want to build data grid-based solutions.
The audience must be familiar with Java to use this guide. In addition, the examples in this guide require the installation and use of the Oracle Coherence product. The use of an IDE is not required to use this guide, but is recommended to facilitate working through the examples. A database and basic database knowledge is required when using cache store features.
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For more information, see the following documents that are included in the Oracle Coherence documentation set:
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