Welcome to BEA WebLogic Server 8 For Dummies. Whether you are an administrator, a developer, a manager, or all of the above, you will find something in this book to make your job easier. WebLogic is the most widely used application server on the market today. You can use WebLogic in large or small projects and to develop both traditional client-server as well as web-based applications. This book gives you a broad understanding of BEA WebLogic Server. The main audience consists of developers and administrators, but anyone involved in a WebLogic project will benefit from reading this book. Managers can gain an overview of the components that make up their system. Quality assurance personnel can benefit from the same understanding. For developers, this book shows quick examples to get you up and running in many of the technologies supported by WebLogic. Rather than give you extensive application examples, I focus on short, easy-to-follow examples than can become the starting point for something more complex. For administrators, I step you through many common WebLogic tasks and the configuration settings you should use.