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Introduction and Roadmap
This section describes the contents and organization of this guide - Configuring Log Files and Filtering Log Messages.
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Section 1.1, Document Scope and Audience
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Section 1.2, Guide to This Document
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Section 1.3, Related Documentation
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Section 1.4, Logging Samples and Tutorials
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Section 1.5, New and Changed Logging Features in This Release
1.1 Document Scope and Audience
This document describes how you use WebLogic Server logging services to monitor server, subsystem, and application events. It explains how you configure WebLogic
Server to write messages to log files and listen for the log messages that WebLogic Server broadcasts. It also describes how to view log messages through the WebLogic
Server Administration Console.
This document is a resource for system administrators who configure WebLogic logging services and monitor server and subsystem events, and for Java Platform,
Enterprise Edition Java EE application developers who want to integrate their application logs with WebLogic Server logs. This document is relevant to all phases of
a software project, from development through test and production phases.
This document does not address application logging or localization and internationalization of log message catalogs. For links to information on these topics,
see Section 1.3, Related Documentation.
It is assumed that the reader is familiar with Java EE and Web technologies, object-oriented programming techniques, and the Java programming language.
1.2 Guide to This Document
The document is organized as follows:
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This chapter, Chapter 1, Introduction and Roadmap,
describes the scope of this guide and lists related documentation.
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Chapter 2, Understanding WebLogic Logging Services, discusses the logging
process, log files, and log messages.
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Chapter 3, Configuring WebLogic Logging Services, describes basic
configuration scenarios and tasks.
1-2 Configuring Log Files and Filtering Log Messages for Oracle WebLogic Server
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Chapter 4, Filtering WebLogic Server Log Messages, describes how to specify
which types of messages WebLogic Server writes to its logs and to standard out.
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Chapter 5, Subscribing to Messages, describes how WebLogic Server instantiates
and subscribes a set of message handlers that receive and print log messages.
1.3 Related Documentation
