Preface
This document is a resource for software developers who want to develop and configure applications that include WebLogic Server Java Message Service (JMS).
Audience
This document contains information that is useful for business analysts and system architects who are evaluating WebLogic Server or considering the use of WebLogic Server JMS for a particular application.
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.
This document does not address production phase administration, monitoring, or performance tuning JMS topics.
You should be familiar with Java EE and JMS concepts. This document emphasizes the value-added features provided by WebLogic Server JMS and key information about how to use WebLogic Server features and facilities to get a JMS application up and running.
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Related Documentation
This document contains JMS-specific design and development information.
For comprehensive guidelines for developing, deploying, and monitoring WebLogic Server applications, see the following documents:
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Administering JMS Resources for Oracle WebLogic Server for information about configuring and managing JMS resources.
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Administering the Store-and-Forward Service for Oracle WebLogic Server for information about the benefits and usage of the Store-and-Forward service with WebLogic JMS.
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Administering the WebLogic Persistent Store for information about the benefits and usage of the system-wide WebLogic Persistent Store.
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Deploying Applications to Oracle WebLogic Server is the primary source of information about deploying WebLogic Server applications.
Samples and Tutorials for the JMS Developer
In addition to this document, Oracle provides a variety of code samples and tutorials for JMS developers. The samples and tutorials illustrate WebLogic Server JMS in action, and provide practical instructions about how to perform key JMS development tasks.
Oracle recommends that you run some or all of the JMS examples before developing your own JMS applications.
Avitek Medical Records Application (MedRec) and Tutorials
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.
MedRec includes a service tier that is made up 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.
New and Changed JMS Features in This Release
This release includes the following new and changed features for WebLogic Server 12.x:
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WebLogic Server 12.2.1 supports the use of simplified APIs specified by JMS 2.0. See Understanding the Simplified API Programming Model.
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Weighted Distributed Destinations are deprecated in WebLogic Server 10.3.4.0. Oracle recommends using Uniform Distributed Destinations.
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Advanced WebLogic JMS publish and subscribe (pub/sub) concepts and functionality of Uniform Distributed Topics (UDTs) necessary to design high availability applications. See Developing Advanced Pub/Sub Applications.
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The
JMSDestinationAvailabilityHelper
API provides a means for getting notifications when destinations become available or unavailable. These APIs are for advanced use cases only. Use this helper only when standard approaches for solving WebLogic distributed consumer problems have been exhausted. See Using the JMS Destination Availability Helper APIs with Distributed Queues in Developing JMS Applications for Oracle WebLogic Server. -
Since WebLogic Server 10.3.6, the JMSModuleHelper does not support anonymous lookup (using
-Dweblogic.management.anonymousAdminLookupEnabled=true
) to comply with the existing WebLogic security model. See Security Considerations for Anonymous Users.
For a comprehensive listing of the new WebLogic Server features introduced in this release, see What's New in Oracle WebLogic Server.
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