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Using Oracle TopLink with Oracle WebLogic Server
This chapter provides an overview of developing an Oracle TopLink application using Oracle WebLogic Server. The following topics are covered:
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Section 6.1, Overview of Oracle TopLink
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Section 6.2, Integrating Oracle TopLink with Oracle WebLogic Server
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Section 6.3, Using JPA 2.0 with TopLink in WebLogic Server
6.1 Overview of Oracle TopLink
Oracle TopLink is an advanced, object-persistence and object-transformation framework that provides development tools and run-time capabilities that reduce
development and maintenance efforts, and increase enterprise application functionality.
Oracle TopLink includes support for EJB 3.0 in Java EE and Java SE environments, as well as support for EJB 2.n container-managed persistence CMP. You can integrate
Oracle TopLink with a variety of application servers, including Oracle WebLogic Server, OC4J, SunAS, JBoss, and IBM WebSphere.
For more information about developing, deploying, and configuring Oracle TopLink applications, see the Oracle Fusion Middleware Developers Guide for Oracle TopLink.
When use use TopLink as the persistence provider in this release of WebLogic Server, you can install a patch that provides support for JPA 2.0. See
Section 6.3, Using JPA 2.0 with TopLink in WebLogic Server.
6.2 Integrating Oracle TopLink with Oracle WebLogic Server
You develop Oracle TopLink applications, as described in Introduction to TopLink Application Development in Oracle Fusion Middleware Developers Guide for Oracle
TopLink.
Before you can deploy Oracle TopLink applications on Oracle WebLogic Server, you must perform the following integration steps:
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If JTA is used, configure the external transaction controller as required.
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Use deployed JMX MBeans to configure your Oracle TopLink sessions at run-time. For complete details, see Integrating TopLink with Oracle WebLogic Server in Oracle
Fusion Middleware Developers Guide for Oracle TopLink. You also need to meet the
6-2 Programming Enterprise JavaBeans, Version 3.0, for Oracle WebLogic Server
requirements described in Integrating TopLink with an Application Server in the same document.
6.3 Using JPA 2.0 with TopLink in WebLogic Server
