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About This Document

This document introduces the WebLogic J2EE Connector Architecture and describes how to configure and deploy resource adapters to WebLogic Server. The document is organized as follows:

- Overview of the WebLogic J2EE Connector Architecture, provides an overview of the WebLogic J2EE Connector Architecture.

- Security, discusses WebLogic J2EE Connector Architecture security considerations.

- Transaction Management, introduces the various types of transaction levels supported by the WebLogic J2EE Connector Architecture and explains how to specify the transaction levels in the resource adapter .rar archive.

- Connection Management, introduces you to various connection management tasks.

- Configuration, outlines the configuration tasks that you perform to deploy resource adapters to WebLogic Server.

- Writing J2EE Connector Architecture- Compliant Resource Adapters, provides requirements for writing a resource adapter (.rar).

- Resource Adapter Deployment, provides an overview of resource adapters and explains how to configure and deploy them to WebLogic Server.

- Client Considerations, discusses WebLogic J2EE Connector Architecture client considerations.

- weblogic-ra.xml Deployment Descriptor Elements, provides the weblogic-ra.xml DTD and deployment descriptor elements.

- Workarounds for Common BEA J2EE Connector Architecture Exceptions, provides troubleshooting information for two common connector exceptions.

Audience

This document is written for application developers who want to build e-commerce applications using the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) from Sun Microsystems. It is assumed that readers know Web technologies, object-oriented programming techniques, and the Java programming language.

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Related Information

The BEA corporate Web site provides all documentation for WebLogic Server. In particular, refer to the following:

- Javadoc for the BEA WebLogic J2EE Connector Architecture (See the product distribution CD.)

- Weblogic-specific Resource Adapter Document Type Definition (See weblogic-ra.xml Deployment Descriptor Elements.)

- BEA WebLogic Application Integration (See http://edocs.bea.com/wlintegration/v2_0/applicationintegration/devel/index.htm.) This document describes how to build a resource adapter.

Also refer to the following documentation from Sun Microsystems:

- J2EE Connector Architecture—http://java.sun.com/j2ee/connector/index.html

- J2EE Connector Specification, Version 1.0, Proposed Final Draft 2—http://java.sun.com/j2ee/download.html#connectorspec

- J2EE Platform Specification, Version 1.3, Proposed Final Draft 3—http://java.sun.com/j2ee

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>               [-p portnumber] [-t timeout] [-s send]
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>     java weblogic.deploy [list|deploy|undeploy|update]
>            password {application} {source}
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