Programming Stand-alone Clients
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Introduction and Roadmap
This section describes the contents and organization of this guide—Programming Stand-alone Clients.
- Document Scope and Audience
- Guide to this Document
- Related Documentation
- Samples and Tutorials
- New and Changed Features
Document Scope and Audience
This document is a resource for software developers who want to develop stand-alone clients that inteoperate with WebLogic Server®.
The topics in this document are relevant during the design and development phases of a software project. The document also includes topics that are useful in solving application problems that are discovered during test and pre-production phases of a project.
It is assumed that the reader is familiar with J2EE and JMS concepts. This document emphasizes the value-added features provided by WebLogic Server and key information about how to use WebLogic Server features and facilities when developing stand-alone clients.
Guide to this Document
- This chapter, Introduction and Roadmap, introduces the organization of this guide.
- Overview of Stand-alone Clients, describes basic client- server functionality.
- Developing T3 Clients, provides information on how to create T3 clients.
- Developing a J2EE Application Client (Thin Client), provides information on how to create a J2EE application client.
- WebLogic JMS Thin Client, provides information on how to a create WebLogic JMS thin client.
- Developing a J2SE Client, provides information on how to create a J2SE client.
- Developing a WLS-IIOP Client, provides information on how to create a WLS-IIOP client.
- Developing a CORBA/IDL Client, provides information on how to create a CORBA/IDL client.
- Developing Clients for CORBA Objects, provides information on how to create a client that interoperates with CORBA objects.
- Developing a WebLogic C++ Client for a Tuxedo ORB, provides information on how to create a C++ client for the Tuxedo ORB.
- Developing Security-Aware Clients, provides information on how to create a security-aware client.
- Using EJBs with RMI-IIOP Clients, provides information on how to use EJBs with a RMI-IIOP client.
- Client Application Deployment Descriptor Elements, is a reference for the standard J2EE Client application deployment descriptor,
application-client.xml, and the WebLogic-specific client application deployment descriptor. - Code Examples, provides information on BEA examples that demonstrate connectivity between numerous clients and applications. This section includes examples that demonstrate using EJBs with RMI-IIOP, connecting to C++ clients, and setting up interoperability with a Tuxedo Server.
Related Documentation
For comprehensive guidelines for developing, deploying, and monitoring WebLogic Server applications, see the following documents:
- Understanding WebLogic RMI is a guide to using Remote Method Invocation (RMI) and Internet Interop-Orb-Protocol (IIOP) features.
- Developing Applications with WebLogic Server is a guide to developing WebLogic Server applications.
- Deploying Applications to WebLogic Server is the primary source of information about deploying WebLogic Server applications.
- WebLogic Server Performance and Tuning contains information on monitoring and improving the performance of WebLogic Server applications.
Samples and Tutorials
In addition to this document, BEA Systems provides a variety of code samples and tutorials for developers. The examples and tutorials illustrate WebLogic Server in action, and provide practical instructions on how to perform key development tasks.
BEA recommends that you run some or all of the examples before developing your own applications.
Avitek Medical Records Application (MedRec) and Tutorials
MedRec is an end-to-end sample J2EE application shipped with WebLogic Server that simulates an independent, centralized medical record management system. The MedRec application provides a framework for patients, doctors, and administrators to manage patient data using a variety of different clients.
MedRec demonstrates WebLogic Server and J2EE features, and highlights BEA-recommended best practices. MedRec is included in the WebLogic Server distribution, and can be accessed from the Start menu on Windows machines. For Linux and other platforms, you can start MedRec from the WL_HOME\samples\domains\medrec directory, where WL_HOME is the top-level installation directory for WebLogic Platform.
MedRec includes a service tier comprised primarily of Enterprise Java Beans (EJBs) that work together to process requests from web applications, web services, and workflow applications, and future client applications. The application includes message-driven, stateless session, stateful session, and entity EJBs.
Examples in the WebLogic Server Distribution
WebLogic Server 9.0 optionally installs API code examples in WL_HOME\samples\server\examples\src\examples, where WL_HOME is the top-level directory of your WebLogic Server installation. You can start the examples server, and obtain information about the samples and how to run them from the WebLogic Server 9.0 Start menu.
New and Changed Features
For release-specific information, see these sections in WebLogic Server 9.0 Release Notes:
- WebLogic Server 9.0 Features and Changes lists new, changed, and deprecate features.
- WebLogic Server 9.0 Known and Resolved Issues lists known problems by service pack, for all WebLogic Server APIs, including EJB.
For more release-specific information about the hardware and software configurations supported by BEA for this release of WebLogic Server, see WebLogic Platform Supported Configurations.
