Contents

Title and Copyright Information

Preface

• Documentation Accessibility
• Conventions

1 Introduction and Roadmap

• Document Scope and Audience
• Guide to This Document
• Related Documentation
• New and Changed Features in This Release

2 Getting Started

• Introduction to Coherence Applications
• Typical Uses for Coherence
• Understanding Coherence Application Configuration Files
• Packaging and Deployment Overview
• Main Tasks for Creating Coherence Applications
  • Task One: Create a Coherence Application Directory Structure
  • Task Two: Include the Coherence Application's Artifacts
  • Task Three: Package the Coherence Application for Deployment

3 Creating Coherence Applications for WebLogic Server

• Packaging Coherence Applications
  • Directory Structure Example
  • Packaging a Grid Archive In an Enterprise Application
• Creating a Coherence Application Deployment Descriptor
• Using JNDI to Override Configuration
• Defining a Data Cache
• Accessing a Data Cache
• Using the Coherence API
• Using a Coherence Application Lifecycle Listener
• Accessing and Retrieving Relational Data
  • Specifying the Eclipse Persistence Provider
  • Packaging a Persistence Unit
• Using Coherence for Session Management
• Creating Extend Clients in WebLogic Server
• Using a JCache Cache in WebLogic Server

4 Deploying Coherence Applications in WebLogic Server

• Understanding Coherence Deployment Tiers
• Deploying Applications to Managed Coherence Servers
• Deploying Coherence Applications as Shared Libraries
• Referencing Shared Libraries from a Coherence Application
• Performing a Rolling Redeploy
• Loading Coherence From the Application Classloader
• Securing Coherence Applications in WebLogic Server

A coherence-application.xml Deployment Descriptor Elements

• coherence-application.xml Namespace Declaration and Schema Location
• application-lifecycle-listener
• cache-configuration-ref
• coherence-application
• configurable-cache-factory-config
• init-params
• pof-configuration-ref

B weblogic-coh-app.xml Deployment Descriptor Elements

• weblogic-coh-app.xml Namespace Declaration and Schema Location
• weblogic-coh-app
• library-ref