Programming WebLogic Deployment
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Introduction and Roadmap
This section describes the contents and organization of this guide— the Programming WebLogic Deployment.
- Document Scope and Audience
- Guide to This Document
- Related Documentation
- Samples for the Deployment API Developer
- Release-Specific WebLogic Deployment API Information
- Summary of WebLogic Deployment API Features
- Unsupported WebLogic Deployment API Features
Document Scope and Audience
This document is a resource for software developers who develop a deployment tool using the WebLogic Deployment API. WebLogic provides a packaged deployment tool, WebLogic.Deployer, that serves this function. It is more useful for some development efforts to use the packaged tool. However, if the developer wishes to use their own model implementation (see the J2EE Deployment API standard) and want to interface with the WebLogic SPI, they can use the WebLogic Deployment API deployment factory to build a tool that is documented here. Also, if the developer wants to create an interface that provides more efficient application configuration options for their work than are available from the WebLogic Server Console, the Deployment API extensions to support one are documented here as well.
It also contains information that is useful for system architects who are evaluating WebLogic Server or considering the use of the WebLogic Deployment API for a particular deployment strategy.
The topics in this document are relevant during the design, development, test, and Pre-production phases of a software project. This document does not directly address production phase administration, monitoring, or performance tuning Deployment API applications topics. The deployment API includes utilities to make software updates during production but it mirrors the functionality of the WebLogic Deployment tools already available. For links to WebLogic Server® documentation and resources for other production topics, see Related Documentation.
It is assumed that the reader is familiar with J2EE concepts, the J2EE Deployment API standard, the Java programming language, Enterprise Java Beans (EJBs), and Web technologies. This document emphasizes the value-added features provided by the WebLogic Deployment API and key information about how to use WebLogic Server features and facilities to use the WebLogic Deployment API to manage application deployment.
Guide to This Document
This document is organized as follows:
- This chapter, Introduction and Roadmap, introduces the organization of this guide and the features of the WebLogic Deployment API.
- Chapter 2, Introducing the WebLogic Server Deployment API, describes the packages, interfaces, and classes of the API, including extensions to the J2EE Deployment API standard, utilities, helper classes, and new concepts for WebLogic Server deployment.
- Chapter 3, Configuring Applications for Deployment, contains instructions on how to configure every aspect of deployment programmatically.
- Chapter 4, Performing Deployment Operations, completes the discussion of the deployment API with the deployment life cycle and controls for a deployed application.
Related Documentation
This document contains Deployment API-specific design and development information. For comprehensive guidelines for developing, deploying, and monitoring WebLogic Server applications, see the following documents:
- Deploying Applications to the WebLogic Server is a guide to using the deployment tool packaged with weblogic server. Any developer who is unsure of how deployment works should read this document first, before reading the Deployment API developers guide, to understand what is involved in deployment - configuration, deployment, and the deployment life cycle.
- Developing WebLogic Server Applications is a guide to developing WebLogic Server components (such as Web applications and EJBs) and applications.
- Developing Web Applications for WebLogic Server is a guide to developing Web applications, including servlets and JSPs, that are deployed and run on WebLogic Server.
- Programming WebLogic Enterprise Java Beans is a guide to developing EJBs that are deployed and run on WebLogic Server.
- Programming WebLogic XML is a guide to designing and developing applications that include XML processing.
- Overview of WebLogic Server System Administration provides an overview of administering WebLogic Server and its deployed applications.
Samples for the Deployment API Developer
API examples are made available for download at http://dev2dev.bea.com. These examples are distributed as zipped files that you can unzip into an existing WebLogic Server samples directory structure.
You build and run the downloadable examples in the same manner as you would an installed WebLogic Server example. See the download pages of individual examples for more information.
Release-Specific WebLogic Deployment API Information
For release-specific information, see these sections in WebLogic Server Release Notes:
- WebLogic Server Features and Changes lists new, changed, and deprecated features.
- WebLogic Server Known and Resolved Issues lists known problems by general release, as well as service pack, for all WebLogic Server APIs, including the deployment API.
Summary of WebLogic Deployment API Features
The following list summarizes the main features of WebLogic Deployment API and provides links for additional detailed information:
- Extensions the J2EE Deployment API standard. See the J2EE Deployment API standard on the Sun Microsystems Java support site.
Unsupported WebLogic Deployment API Features
The following list describes the features that are not supported in this release of WebLogic Deployment API:
