Configuring Database Connections
WebLogic Server uses a standard JDBC API to enable connections to a relational database. The JDBC specification supports transactions, statement caching, connection pooling, and many other features. WebLogic's services such as the Java Persistence API (JPA), container-managed entity beans, persistent messages, and others rely on the JDBC API. JDBC drivers provide an implementation of the standard JDBC API and enable the actual connectivity to a relational database.
In order to configure database connectivity to an Oracle (or any other) database, you first configure a JDBC data source. Once you do this, you can deploy the JDBC resource to one or more servers in a WebLogic domain, which allows all applications ...
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