Preface

Developing Applications with Oracle Coherence provides contextual information, instructions, and examples that are designed to teach developers and architects how to use Coherence and develop Coherence-based applications.

This preface includes the following sections:

Audience

Developing Applications with Oracle Coherence is intended for the following audiences:

• Primary Audience – Application developers who want to understand core Oracle Coherence concepts and want to build applications that leverage an Oracle Coherence data grid.

• Secondary Audience – System architects who want to understand core Oracle Coherence concepts and want to build data grid-based solutions.

The audience must be familiar with Java to use this guide. In addition, the examples in this guide require the installation and use of the Oracle Coherence product. For details about installing Coherence, see Installing Oracle Coherence. The use of an IDE is not required to use this guide, but is recommended to facilitate working through the examples. A database and basic database knowledge is required when using cache store features.

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Access to Oracle Support

Oracle customer access to and use of Oracle support services will be pursuant to the terms and conditions specified in their Oracle order for the applicable services.

Diversity and Inclusion

Oracle is fully committed to diversity and inclusion. Oracle respects and values having a diverse workforce that increases thought leadership and innovation. As part of our initiative to build a more inclusive culture that positively impacts our employees, customers, and partners, we are working to remove insensitive terms from our products and documentation. We are also mindful of the necessity to maintain compatibility with our customers' existing technologies and the need to ensure continuity of service as Oracle's offerings and industry standards evolve. Because of these technical constraints, our effort to remove insensitive terms is ongoing and will take time and external cooperation.

Related Documents

For more information, see the following documents that are included in the Oracle Coherence documentation set:

• Installing Oracle Coherence

• Release Notes for Oracle Coherence

• Developing Oracle Coherence Applications for Oracle WebLogic Server

• Administering Oracle Coherence

• Managing Oracle Coherence

• Developing Remote Clients for Oracle Coherence

• Integrating Oracle Coherence

• Securing Oracle Coherence

• Administering HTTP Session Management with Oracle Coherence*Web

• Java API Reference for Oracle Coherence

• C++ API Reference for Oracle Coherence

• .NET API Reference for Oracle Coherence

• REST API for Managing Oracle Coherence

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