1z0-599 Oracle WebLogic Server 12c Essentials Questions and Answers

* Built on top of Oracle Coherence (Coherence), Coherence*Web:

/ brings Coherence data grid's data scalability, availability, reliability, and performance to in-memory session management and storage.

/ can be deployed to many mainstream application servers such as Oracle GlassFish Server, Oracle WebLogic Server, IBM WebSphere, Tomcat, and so on

* Coherence*Web enables HTTP session sharing and management across different Web applications, domains, and heterogeneous application servers. Session data can be stored in data caches outside of the application server, thus freeing application server heap space and enabling server restarts without losing session data.

E: Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse 12c (12.1.1.2.1)

Eclipse Based Enterprise Application Development

Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse (OEPE) 12.1.1.2.1 for Eclipse Juno provides tools that make it easier to develop applications utilizing specific Oracle Fusion Middleware technologies and Oracle Database.

Note:

* Support for IDE’s. WebLogic already supported JDeveloper 11.1.1.5, but will come out with the 11.1.1.6 later on. Also suported are Eclipse and NetBeans 7.1 IDE. The JDeveloper 11.1.1.6 and IntelliJIdea IDE will be supported in a later timeframe.

D: auto-kill-if-failed

Specifies whether the Node Manager should automatically kill

this server (the managed server) if its health state is failed.

(Interface=weblogic.management.configuration.ServerMBean Attribute=getAutoKillIfFailed)

When Auto Restart is enabled, Node Manager will try to restart the Managed Server if it crashes or goes down unexpectedly, for instance, as the result of a machine reboot.

E: When Auto Restart is enabled, Node Manager will try to restart the Managed Server if it crashes or goes down unexpectedly, for instance, as the result of a machine reboot.

When an application that references a shared library or package is deployed, WebLogic Server checks the names and version string requirements against the libraries registered with the server. If an exact match for a library or package name is not found, or if the version requirements are not met, the application deployment fails.

If WebLogic Server finds a name and version string match for all of the libraries referenced in the application, the server adds the libraries' classes to the classpath of the referencing application and merges deployment descriptors from both the application and libraries in memory. The resulting deployed application appears as if the referenced libraries were bundled with the application itself.

Note:

As a best practice, your development team should always include version string information for a library or optional package in the manifest file for the deployment. See Editing Manifest Entries for Shared Libraries in Developing Applications for Oracle WebLogic Server for more information.

If you are deploying a library or package that does not include version string information, you can specify it at the command line using one or both of the following options:

libspecver—Defines a specification version for the library or package.

libimplver—Specifies an implementation version for the library or package.

A:

* The WEB-INF directory contains the deployment descriptors for the Web application (web.xml and weblogic.xml) and two subdirectories for storing compiled Java classes and library JAR files.

* Web Application - WEB-INF/web.xml ( WEB-INF/weblogic.xml )

The WEB-INF directory is a vital component of your web application. Web application wont run without it.It contains a heirarcy in which you’ll find the necessary configuration information for your web application, and all the class files for your servlets and classes that are called up by your JSPs.

WEB-INF folder contains all the class files for your servlets and classes that are called up by your JSPs

B:

Enterprise Application - META-INF/application.xml (META-INF/weblogic-application.xml) and META-INF/ejb-jar.xml ( META-INF/weblogic-ejb-jar.xml )

Generally comprises of EJBs. Bussiness Tier of an application and EJB basically handels the Bussiness logic of application (distributed objects)

META-INF/application.xml containes Mappings and security roles etc.whereas META-INF/ejb-jar.xml containes ejb classes , session beans mapping etc.,

The META-INF directory is related to .jar files, It contains the manifest file which has list of jars.

A context-root setting in application.xml takes precedence over context-root setting in weblogic.xml (The context root of a web application determines which URLs weblogic will delegate to your web application.

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* Deployment descriptors are xml documents that describe runtime behaviour for the deployment unit. The XML file contains information such as the context root of the web application and the mapping of the portable names of an application's resources to the application Server's resources

The major components of the WebLogic JMS Server architecture, as illustrated in the figure below.

*(A) JMS servers that can host a defined set of modules and any associated persistent storage that reside on a WebLogic Server instance.

*(B) JMS modules contains configuration resources (such as queues, topics, and connections factories) and are defined by XML documents that conform to the weblogic-jmsmd.xsd schema.

*Client JMS applications that either produce messages to destinations or consume messages from destinations.

*(E) WebLogic persistent storage (file store or JDBC-accessible) for storing persistent message data.

The following figure illustrates the WebLogic JMS architecture.

Explanation;Oracle Coherence is a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware that enables organizations to predictably scale mission-critical applications by providing fast and reliable access to frequently used data.

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* The FilteringClassLoader provides a mechanism for you to configure deployment descriptors to explicitly specify that certain packages should always be loaded from the application, rather than being loaded by the system classloader. This allows you to use alternate versions of applications such as Xerces and Ant.

* To configure the FilteringClassLoader to specify a certain package is loaded from an application, add a prefer-application-packages descriptor element to the weblogic-application.xml which details the list of packages to be loaded from the application. The following example specifies that org.apache.log4j.* and antlr.* packages are loaded from the application, not the system classloader:

org.apache.log4j.*

antlr.*