1 Introduction and Roadmap

This chapter describes the contents and organization of this guide - Developing Oracle Coherence Applications for Oracle WebLogic Server.

This chapter includes the following sections:

• Guide to This Document
  
• New and Changed Features in This Release
  

Guide to This Document

This guide is divided into the following chapters:

• Introduction and Roadmap describes the organization of this document.

• Getting Started describes Coherence applications and provides an overview of configuration, packaging and deployment, and creating Coherence applications.

• Creating Coherence Applications for WebLogic Server describes how to package Coherence applications for Oracle WebLogic Server, how to create a Coherence application deployment descriptor, and how to access Coherence caches. This chapter also introduces Coherence*Web for session management and TopLink Grid for JPA entity caching.

• Deploying Coherence Applications in WebLogic Server describes how to deploy Coherence applications to a Oracle WebLogic Server domain.

• coherence-application.xml Deployment Descriptor Elements provides a complete reference for the XML schema for the Coherence application deployment descriptor coherence-application.xml.

New and Changed Features in This Release

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