1 Introduction and Roadmap

The following sections describe the contents and organization of this guide—Using ActiveCache:

Document Scope and Audience

This document is a resource for:

Application developers who want to develop and configure applications to use the ActiveCache features of Coherence data caches, Coherence*Web session management, and TopLink Grid.
Administrators who configure, manage, and monitor ActiveCache features, such as Coherence clusters and resources.

This chapter, Chapter 1, "Introduction and Roadmap," describes the organization of this document.
Chapter 2, "Overview," provides an overview of ActiveCache features.
Chapter 3, "Developing Applications for ActiveCache," explains how to use ActiveCache with applications running on WebLogic Server.
Chapter 4, "Enabling State Session Persistence," describes how to use ActiveCache with Coherence*Web to provide HTTP session state persistence and management.
Chapter 5, "Accessing and Retrieving Relational Data," describes how to use ActiveCache with TopLink Grid's relational-to-object mapping capabilities to cache relational data.
Chapter 6, "An ActiveCache Example," provides the steps for using ActiveCache to cache session information for Web applications deployed across WebLogic Server instances.
Chapter , "Glossary," describes important, frequently referred to files.

ActiveCache is a new feature in this release of WebLogic Server. For a comprehensive listing of other new WebLogic Server features introduced in this release, see Oracle Fusion Middleware What's New in Oracle WebLogic Server.