Preface

This preface describes the document accessibility features and conventions used in this guide—Developing JDBC Applications for Oracle WebLogic Server.

Audience

This document is a resource for software developers and system administrators who develop and support applications that use the Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) API. It also contains information that is useful for business analysts and system architects who are evaluating WebLogic Server. The topics in this document are relevant during the evaluation, design, development, pre-production, and production phases of a software project.

It is assumed that the reader is familiar with Java EE and JDBC concepts. This document emphasizes the value-added features provided by WebLogic Server JDBC and key information about how to use WebLogic Server features and facilities to get an JDBC application up and running.

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Related Documentation

This document contains JDBC-specific programming information.

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

• Administering JDBC Data Sources for Oracle WebLogic Server is a guide to JDBC configuration and management for WebLogic Server.

• Developing Applications for Oracle WebLogic Server is a guide to developing WebLogic Server applications.

• Deploying Applications to Oracle WebLogic Server is the primary source of information about deploying WebLogic Server applications in development and production environments.

JDBC Samples and Tutorials

In addition to this document, Oracle provides a variety of JDBC code samples that show JDBC configuration and API use, and provide practical instructions on how to perform key JDBC development tasks.

Avitek Medical Records Application (MedRec)

MedRec is an end-to-end sample Java EE 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 Java EE features, and highlights Oracle-recommended best practices. MedRec is optionally installed with the WebLogic Server installation. You can start MedRec from the ORACLE_HOME\user_projects\domains\medrec directory, where ORACLE_HOME is the directory you specified as the Oracle Home when you installed Oracle WebLogic Server. See Sample Applications and Code Examples in Understanding Oracle WebLogic Server.

JDBC Examples in the WebLogic Server Distribution

WebLogic Server optionally installs API code examples in the ORACLE_HOME\wlserver\samples\server directory, where ORACLE_HOME represents the directory where you installed WebLogic Server. See Sample Applications and Code Examples in Understanding Oracle WebLogic Server.

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
boldface	Boldface type indicates graphical user interface elements associated with an action, or terms defined in text or the glossary.
italic	Italic type indicates book titles, emphasis, or placeholder variables for which you supply particular values.
monospace	Monospace type indicates commands within a paragraph, URLs, code in examples, text that appears on the screen, or text that you enter.