Configuring and Managing WebLogic Store-and-Forward

Introduction and Roadmap

This section describes the contents and organization of this guide—Configuring and Managing WebLogic Store-and-Forward.

Document Scope and Audience

This document is a resource for system administrators responsible for configuring, managing, and monitoring the WebLogic Store-and-Forward service for use with WebLogic JMS and Web Services Reliable Messaging (WSRM).

The topics in this document are relevant to production phase administration, monitoring, or performance tuning topics. This document does not address the pre-production development or testing phases of a software project. For links to WebLogic Server documentation and resources for these topics, see Related Documentation.

It is assumed that the reader is familiar with WebLogic Server system administration. This document emphasizes the value-added features provided by WebLogic SAF and key information about how to use WebLogic Server features and facilities to maintain WebLogic Server in a production environment.

Guide to This Document

This chapter, Introduction and Roadmap, introduces the organization of this guide.
Understanding the Store-and-Forward Service, explains the Store-and-Forward service concepts and features, and describe how they work with WebLogic Server.
Configuring SAF for JMS Messages, describes how to configure the Store-and-Forward resources for JMS messages.
Monitoring and Managing SAF Agents, describes how to describes how to monitor and manage the run-time statistics for your Store-and-Forward service.
Troubleshooting WebLogic SAF, provides a list of frequently asked questions concerning SAF configuration issues.

Samples and Tutorials for the System Administrator

In addition to this document, BEA Systems provides a variety of code samples and tutorials that show WebLogic Server configuration and API use, and provide practical instructions on how to perform key development tasks. BEA recommends that you run some or all of the samples before configuring your own system.

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.

Examples Available for Download

Additional API examples for download at http://dev2dev.bea.com/code/index.jsp. These examples are distributed as ZIP 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 at http://dev2dev.bea.com/code/index.jsp.