A Web Client interacts with WLS via HTTP using servlets/JSPs.
Types of Web clients include:
A client application interacts with WLS through JRMP/T3.IIOP,COM.
Types of clients include:
Forwards requests to other machines
Can be used as a level of indirection and security
Can be used to load balance a system
Provide filtering,authorization,and authentication services.
Help keep out hackers
Map port requests
Can act as proxy servers
Can decrease back-end network activity
Web servers:
Provide Web content
Provide services that support the execution and availability of deployed applications
Handle heavier processing chores than Web servers.
A domain is a logically related group of Weblogic Server resources that you manage as a unit.
A domain provides one point of administration.
A Weblogic Server domain can logically separate:
A domain is an administration feature that;
Weblogic Server domains can be used to separate:
A server is an instance of weblogic.server executing in a JVM.
A server:
Is the central point of control for a domain Stores the configuration information and logs for a domain
Runs the Weblogic Administration Console
Is any server in a domain that is not the admin server
Contacts the admin server for configuration information
Runs business applications in a production evironment
Is a computer that hosts Weblogic Server(s) Runs a supported operating system platform
Can host multiple Weblogic Server instances
A cluster is a logical group of WLS servers.
Weblogic clusters provide automatic:
A cluster is transparent to a client.
In this section we discussed:
The ways that distributed systems improve availability,scalability,and maintainability
The ways that standards for distributed systems improve the cost effectiveness of software development projects
The J2EE architecture and many J2EE technologies
The terms used to discuss Web architectures
The terms used to describe Weblogic Server features