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About this Book and the Cloudconnector Documentation

This guide assumes you are familiar with Cloudscape features, administration, and tuning. Before reading this guide, you should first learn the basic Cloudscape product by reading the Cloudscape Developer's Guide. The Cloudscape Developer's Guide also includes a discussion of deployment options and how embedding Cloudscape into a server fits into these options. Also, since multi-user environments typically have performance and tuning issues, you should read Tuning Cloudscape.

If you have installed Cloudconnector, your installation directory includes some of the WebLogic documentation. These documents are:

  • The WebLogic Developer's Guide
  • The WebLogic Administrators and Deployment Guide

These books are provided in the PDF format under /frameworks/cloudconnect/doc.

Use the WebLogic documentation included in this distribution only if you need additional information on the following issues:

  • performance and tuning

    See Tuning the Server in the WebLogic Administrators and Deployment Guide.

  • security

    For using ACLs (e.g., to define groups, credentials, and certificates), see Using Tengah ACLs in the The WebLogic Developer's Guide.

    For using SSLs (e.g, in servlets), see Using SSL in the The WebLogic Developer's Guide.

  • advanced administration

    For example, to disable HTTP services or check memory usage, see the The WebLogic Administrators and Deployment Guide

You should also check the accompanying WebLogic release notes for information on any of these topics. You will find a link to the Release Notes in the Cloudconnector Release Notes.

Read this guide (the Cloudscape Server and Administration Guide) first. Consult the WebLogic guides only for the topics listed above, or when this guide specifically refers you to a WebLogic guide about a given topic. There are two reasons for this:

  • This guide describes Cloudscape customizations not described in the BEA documentation. For example, WebLogic JDBC's documentation refers to a TengahClient, which uses a more complicated URL than Cloudconnector does.
  • The WebLogic documents may refer to features not included in Cloudconnector. You will need additional licenses from WebLogic to use these features.