This chapter describe the contents and organization of this guide—Using RESTful Management Services With Oracle WebLogic Server.
This chapter includes the following sections:
WebLogic Server provides RESTful Management Services that enable you to monitor WebLogic Server outside of the Oracle Public Cloud Management Console. This document describes how to use the RESTful Management Services.
It is assumed that the reader is familiar with Java EE and general application management concepts. This document emphasizes a hands-on approach to developing a limited but useful set of RESTful monitoring services.
This document is organized as follows:
This chapter, "Introduction and Roadmap," describes the scope and organization of this guide.
Chapter 2, "Using RESTful Management Services" provides an overview of using the RESTful Management Service with WebLogic Server. This chapter also describes how to enable the RESTful Management Service in WebLogic Server, the formatting and usage of HTTP URLs, and the supported REST resources when monitoring WebLogic Server with RESTful Management Services.
For guidelines on developing other types of management services for WebLogic Server applications, see the following documents:
Using WebLogic Logging Services for Application Logging describes WebLogic support for internationalization and localization of log messages, and shows you how to use the templates and tools provided with WebLogic Server to create or edit message catalogs that are locale-specific.
Configuring and Using the WebLogic Diagnostic Framework describes how to configure and use the WebLogic Diagnostic Framework to create, collect, analyze, archive, and access diagnostic data generated by a running server and the applications deployed within its containers.
For a comprehensive listing of the new WebLogic Server features introduced in this release, see What's New in Oracle WebLogic Server.