The following topics introduce the new and changed features of Oracle Coherence and other significant changes that are described in this guide, and provides pointers to additional information. This document is the new edition of the formerly titled Oracle Coherence Client Guide.
Oracle Coherence 12c (12.1.3) does not contain any new and changed features for this features document.
For 12c (12.1.3), this guide has been updated in several ways. Following are the sections that have been added or changed.
Revised the Coherence*Extend compatibility statement. See "Compatibility Between Coherence*Extend Versions".
Revised F5 integration instructions. See Appendix B, "Integrating with F5 BIG-IP LTM."
Revised Jersey dependencies. See "Dependencies for Coherence REST".
Oracle Coherence 12c (12.1.2) includes the following new and changed features for this document.
Address provider references, which allow proxy service, remote cache, and remote invocation addresses to be defined in an operational override file and referenced from a cache configuration file. See "Using Address Provider References for TCP Addresses".
Name service, which allows extend clients to connect to a proxy by specifying a proxy service name instead of a proxy service address. See "Using the Name Service Acceptor to Connect to a Proxy".
Dynamic thread pool, which manages the number of worker threads available to a proxy service based on the number of client requests, total backlog of requests, and the total number of idle threads. See "Configure Proxy Service Thread Pooling".
REST conditional GET requests, which allows a client to determine if it has the last version of an object. See "GET Operation".
REST Queries,
Named queries, which allow queries to be defined in the REST configuration file and then used by name in a request URL. See "Using Named Queries".
Query size limits, which controls the size of a query result set. See "Limiting the Size of a Query".
Custom Query engines, which allow different query semantics to be used instead of the default CohQL semantics. See "Using Custom Query Engines".
Context path configuration, which allows multiple Coherence REST applications to be deployed to the embedded HTTP server. See "Deploying with the Embedded HTTP Server".
For 12c (12.1.2), this guide has been updated in several ways. Following are the sections that have been added or changed.
Revised instructions for proxy load balancing. See "Load Balancing Connections".
Revised the Coherence REST dependencies section. See "Dependencies for Coherence REST".
Revised the instructions for deploying Coherence REST on WebLogic Server to include new packaging requirements for a WebLogic Server domain. "Deploying to WebLogic Server".