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Introduction

This section describes the following types of applications:

WebLogic Collaborate Applications

This document introduces WebLogic Collaborate MBeans and management applications. MBeans are one of three types of component applications available within WebLogic Collaborate. Management applications use MBeans to monitor WebLogic Collaborate. In addition to MBeans, WebLogic Collaborate allows you to use the following kinds of applications:

Logic plug-ins, for customized routing, filtering, and information processing, as described in Programming BEA WebLogic Collaborate Logic Plug-Ins
Messaging applications, as described in Programming BEA WebLogic Collaborate Messaging Applications

The following figure shows where these types of applications reside in the WebLogic Collaborate system.

Figure 1-1 Types of WebLogic Collaborate Applications

For an introduction to the WebLogic Collaborate system, see Introducing BEA WebLogic Collaborate.

Management Applications

WebLogic Collaborate management applications monitor run-time activities, such as message traffic and conversation statistics, on WebLogic Collaborate. WebLogic Collaborate provides a unified administrative tool, the WebLogic Collaborate Administration Console, that monitors the server at run time. In addition to the system tools provided by BEA, developers can create custom management applications that provide comparable monitoring functionality.

Developers can implement a variety of management applications. These applications can:

Monitor activities on a WebLogic Server node
Provide run-time statistics for server nodes, delivery channels, business transaction definitions, trading partners, and business messages.

For all management applications, WebLogic Collaborate provides a set of Managed Beans, or MBeans, which are special JavaBeans with attributes and methods for management operations. These MBeans are BEA implementations of the Java Management Extensions (JMX) Managed Beans API, which is defined in the Java Management Extensions Specification published by Sun Microsystems, Inc.

For more information about WebLogic Collaborate management applications, see Developing Management Applications.