1 Introduction and Roadmap

Document Scope and Audience

The following sections describe the contents and organization of this guide—Developing WebLogic SCA Applications for Oracle WebLogic Server:

• Document Scope and Audience

• Guide to This Document

• Related Documentation

Guide to This Document

• This chapter, Chapter 1, "Introduction and Roadmap," describes the organization of this guide.

• Chapter 2, "Overview," provides a brief overview of Oracle SCA.

• Chapter 3, "Tools Support," describes the tools available for working with WebLogic SCA in Oracle WebLogic Server, Oracle SOA Suite, Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse (OEPE), and Oracle JDeveloper.

• Chapter 4, "Deploying WebLogic SCA Runtime to WebLogic Server," describes how to deploy WebLogic SCA Runtime to WebLogic Server as a shared application library.

• Chapter 5, "WebLogic Spring SCA Application Overview," provides an overview of what is required to create and deploy a WebLogic Spring SCA application.

• Chapter 6, "Configuring the Spring Application Context," tells how to configure the Spring application context to take advantage of WebLogic SCA features.

• Chapter 7, "Configuring EJB Session Bean Bindings," tells how to configure EJB Session Bean bindings to expose services and references in WebLogic Spring SCA applications.

• Chapter 8, "Configuring Web Service Bindings," tells how to configure Web Service bindings to expose services and references in WebLogic Spring SCA applications.

• Chapter 10, "Viewing WebLogic SCA Application Configurations," tells how to enable the WebLogic SCA console extension to view the services and references configured for a WebLogic Spring SCA application.

• Appendix A, "WebLogic SCA Schemas," shows the schemas used for WebLogic Spring SCA applications.

Related Documentation

See the following documentation for related information:

• For information about Oracle WebLogic Server, see Information Roadmap for Oracle WebLogic Server .

• For information about Oracle SOA Suite, see the Oracle SOA Suite Documentation page at http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E12839_01/soa.htm.

• WebLogic SCA is based in part on the following specifications:

  • OASIS SCA Service Component Architecture Assembly Model Specification at http://www.osoa.org/download/attachments/35/SCA_AssemblyModel_V100.pdf?version=1.

  • OASIS SCA Service Component Architecture Spring Component Implementation Specification at http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/25529/sca-springci-draft-20070926.doc.

  • OASISSCA Service Component Architecture EJB Session Bean Binding specification at http://www.osoa.org/download/attachments/35/SCA_EJBSessionBeanBinding_V100.pdf

• For information about the Spring Framework, see Spring Source Community at http://www.springsource.org/