Introduction

 

The following sections provide an introduction to B2B integration management applications:

• WebLogic Integration Applications

• Management Applications

 

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WebLogic Integration Applications

This document introduces the following topics, which are related to WebLogic Integration applications:

• The use of MBeans to monitor B2B integration activities

• Management applications

MBeans are one of three types of component applications available in WebLogic Integration. In addition to MBeans, WebLogic Integration allows you to use the following kinds of applications:

• Logic plug-ins, for customized routing, filtering, and information processing, as described in Programming Logic Plug-Ins for B2B Integration.

• Messaging applications, as described in Programming Messaging Applications for B2B Integration.

For an introduction to the B2B integration system, see Introducing B2B Integration.

 

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Management Applications

WebLogic Integration management applications monitor run-time activities that support B2B integration, such as message traffic and conversation statistics. WebLogic Integration provides a unified administrative tool, the WebLogic Integration B2B Console, that monitors the B2B engine 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 to:

• Monitor activities on a WebLogic Server instance

• Provide run-time statistics for server instances, delivery channels, business transaction definitions, trading partners, and business messages

For all management applications, WebLogic Integration 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.