1 Introduction and Roadmap

The following sections describe the contents and organization of this guide—Using ActiveCache:

• Document Scope and Audience

• Guide to This Document

• Related Documentation

• New and Changed Features in This Release

Document Scope and Audience

This document is a resource for:

• Application developers who want to develop and configure applications to use the ActiveCache features of Coherence data caches, Coherence*Web session management, and TopLink Grid.

• Administrators who configure, manage, and monitor ActiveCache features, such as Coherence clusters and resources.

Guide to This Document

• This chapter, Chapter 1, "Introduction and Roadmap," describes the organization of this document.

• Chapter 2, "Overview," provides an overview of ActiveCache features.

• Chapter 3, "Developing Applications for ActiveCache," explains how to use ActiveCache with applications running on WebLogic Server.

• Chapter 4, "Enabling State Session Persistence," describes how to use ActiveCache with Coherence*Web to provide HTTP session state persistence and management.

• Chapter 5, "Accessing and Retrieving Relational Data," describes how to use ActiveCache with TopLink Grid's relational-to-object mapping capabilities to cache relational data.

• Chapter 6, "An ActiveCache Example," provides the steps for using ActiveCache to cache session information for Web applications deployed across WebLogic Server instances.

• Chapter , "Glossary," describes important, frequently referred to files.

Related Documentation

For additional information, see the following Coherence and WebLogic Server documents:

Coherence

• Getting Started for Oracle Coherence

• Developer's Guide for Oracle Coherence

• Client Guide for Oracle Coherence

• Tutorial for Oracle Coherence

• User's Guide for Oracle Coherence*Web

WebLogic Server

• Oracle Fusion Middleware Developing Applications for Oracle WebLogic Server

• Oracle Fusion Middleware Using Clusters for Oracle WebLogic Server

• Oracle Fusion Middleware Oracle WebLogic Server Administration Console Help

New and Changed Features in This Release

ActiveCache is a new feature in this release of WebLogic Server. For a comprehensive listing of other new WebLogic Server features introduced in this release, see Oracle Fusion Middleware What's New in Oracle WebLogic Server.