WebLogic: The Definitive Guide (O'Reilly, 2004) offers a detailed, comprehensive look into WebLogic Server 7.0 and 8.1. In the following sample chapters, learn how WebLogic Server provides a solid, rich framework for creating portable JMS applications, allows for extensive support for XML and XML-related APIs, and find out how to build and deploy Web services.

Chapter Eight: Java Messaging Service (JMS)
JMS has become the standard for accessing message-oriented Middleware software. Learn how to tune the performance of your JMS server using WebLogic Server, how to customize the performance of message handling, and how to integrate with other messaging systems.

  wl_definitive_guide_ch8.zip (599 KB)

Chapter Nineteen: Web Services
This chapter focuses on how to build and deploy Web services using WebLogic Server, how to then create clients for the Web services, and how to then secure these and invoke Web services that use SSL.

  wl_definitive_guide_ch18.zip (135 KB)

Chapter Eighteen: XML
WebLogic Server provides extensive support for XML and XML-related APIs and comes with a variety of parsers and an XML Registry to manage the parsers. This chapter discusses the various features of WebLogic Server that help you leverage the benefits of XML.

  wl_definitive_guide_ch19.zip (645 KB)