Preface

This document is a resource for software developers who design and develop applications that include XML processing.

Audience

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.

Although this document does include administration and monitoring information useful to developers who want to test their applications in a development environment, the document does not address production-phase administration, monitoring, or performance tuning topics XML topics. For links to WebLogic Server® documentation and resources for these topics, see Related Documentation.

It is assumed that the reader is familiar with Web technologies, XML, XSLT, the Java programming language, and the Servlet and JSP APIs of the Java EE specification. This document emphasizes the value-added features provided by WebLogic Server XML and key information about how to use WebLogic Server features and facilities to get an application that performs XML processing up and running.

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Related Documentation

This document contains XML-specific design and development information.

For comprehensive guidelines for developing, deploying, and monitoring WebLogic Server applications, see the following documents:

• Developing Applications for Oracle WebLogic Server is a guide to developing WebLogic Server components (such as Web applications and EJBs) and applications.

• Developing JAX-WS Web Services for Oracle WebLogic Server is a guide to developing Web Services that are deployed and run on WebLogic Server.

• Deploying Applications to Oracle WebLogic Server is the primary source of information about deploying WebLogic Server applications.

For related information about XML outside the scope of this document, see links listed in Learning More About XML and XML Reference.

New and Changed WebLogic Server Features

For a comprehensive listing of the new WebLogic Server features introduced in this release, see What's New in Oracle WebLogic Server.

Conventions

The following text conventions are used in this document:

Convention	Meaning
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