Conventions of This Book

This book is broken into chapters according to the administration technique or concept that is under discussion. For example, there is a chapter on installation, another on starting and stopping, another on clustering.

The success or failure of any given WebLogic configuration depends on the internal server configuration, the application code, the configuration of the underlying operating system, and the vagaries of the network support services. Given that, it is, in fact, impossible to say with absolute certainty that the examples presented herein will run on your particular machine. However, you have my solemn vow that I typed each and every one of them in and they worked for me.

Typographical Conventions

Example commands and directives are printed in bold type and centered:

  Example Text  

Important terms and concepts which occur in the flow of the text are set off by boldface type. Directory paths and file names which occur in the flow of the text are in Courier New typeface with bold type: /sample/directory or filename.

Because we will spend much of the book talking about networking concepts, it's probably worth explicitly defining my notation here.

192.168.0.1:80	Refers to IP port 80 on IP address 192.168.0.1.
somedomain.com:7001	Refers to IP port 7001 on somedomain.com.