1 Introduction and Roadmap

This chapter describes the contents and organization of this guide: Administering Oracle WebLogic Server with RESTful Management Services.

This chapter includes the following topics:

• Guide to this Document
  
• Information Roadmap
  
• New and Changed Features in this Release
  

Guide to this Document

This guide is organized into the following chapters:

• Introduction and Roadmap describes the organization of this guide.

• About the WLS RESTful Management Interface provides an introduction to the WLS RESTful management interface, useful background and mapping information, and the HTTP status codes returned by WLS REST resources.

• Using the WLS RESTful Management Interface describes how to use the RESTful management services supported by Oracle WebLogic Server.

• Domain Level REST API Examples contains example scripts for users in domain level roles that show how to use the WLS REST APIs to perform common domain management and monitoring tasks.

Information Roadmap

The Oracle WebLogic Server REST resources are based on WLS bean trees and organized according to their corresponding root resources. See Mapping the WLS Beans to REST.

Each REST manual refers to resources accessible to domain user roles. In the reference guides, REST resources:

• Run at the domain level.

• Must be accessed over a URL by a user defined in the domain's default security realm.

• Can be used to manage a domain.

• Can be used to manage all WLS MBeans.

See Table 1-1 for a complete listing of the Oracle WebLogic Server REST reference documents and descriptions of their use.

Table 1-1 WLS RESTful Management Interface Reference Documentation

Book Title	Use these REST Resources to...
RESTful Edit Reference for Oracle WebLogic Server	Edit the WLS configuration.
RESTful Domain Configuration Reference for Oracle WebLogic Server	View the last activated WLS configuration.
RESTful Domain Runtime Reference for Oracle WebLogic Server	Monitor the entire WLS domain.
RESTful Server Configuration Reference for Oracle WebLogic Server	View the WLS configuration that the Administration Server or Managed Server is currently running against.
RESTful Server Runtime Reference for Oracle WebLogic Server	Monitor the Administration Server or a Managed Server. You can monitor a Managed Server either by using the Administration Server's domainRuntime/serverRuntimes/<managedServerName>/... resources or the Managed Server's serverRuntime/... resources.
RESTful Lifecycle Reference for Oracle WebLogic Server	Use WLS life cycle management REST resources.

New and Changed Features in this Release

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