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Administration Guide

Creating Liquid Data Domains

This section introduces the concept of WebLogic domains, and explains how to create new WebLogic domains for BEA Liquid Data for WebLogicTM, or to add Liquid Data to an existing WebLogic domain. The following topics are included:

- Understanding WebLogic Domains and Administration

- Understanding the Relationship of Liquid Data to WebLogic Domains

- Creating a New Domain

- Adding Liquid Data to an Existing Domain

For detailed information about adding Liquid Data to other types of WebLogic domains, such as WebLogic Platform, WebLogic Portal, WebLogic Integration, or WebLogic Workshop domains, see Deployment Tasks in Deploying Liquid Data.

Understanding WebLogic Domains and Administration

A WebLogic domain is a collection of WebLogic resources managed as a single unit. A WebLogic domain includes one or more instances of WebLogic Server and may include WebLogic Server clusters. For more information about domains, see Configuring and Managing WebLogic Server Domains in the WebLogic Server Administration Guide.

The Administration server is the central point of control for an entire domain. If there is only one server in a domain, that server is the Administration server in addition to the other functions it provides. Any other servers in the domain are Managed servers.

Understanding the Relationship of Liquid Data to WebLogic Domains

Liquid Data is an application and a set of associated resources that are deployed in a WebLogic domain. Starting, stopping, and managing Liquid Data is accomplished by starting the WebLogic Server in a particular domain in which Liquid Data is deployed, and using the Administration Console for that server to configure and manage Liquid Data resources for that domain. The full installation of Liquid Data includes a preconfigured Samples domain as a getting started example.

When you are ready to set up your own Liquid Data domains and servers, you must create new Liquid Data domains or add Liquid Data to your existing WebLogic Server or WebLogic Integration domains.

Creating a New Domain

If you are creating a new Web Logic domain for use with Liquid Data, you first need to create a domain using the WebLogic Platform Configuration Wizard. For more information, see Creating a New WebLogic Domain in Using the Configuration Wizard in the WebLogic Platform documentation.

For your convenience, a number of Liquid Data configuration templates are available for use with the Configuration Wizard.

- How to get into the wizard.

- What the templates are.

Note: The WebLogic Platform Configuration Wizard is not designed to modify or extend existing WebLogic Platform domains.

Adding Liquid Data to an Existing Domain

Once you have WebLogic Server domain in which you want to use Liquid Data, the next step is to deploy the Liquid Data application and resources into that domain. For more information, see Deploying Liquid Data Components, as well as Deployment Tasks in Deploying Liquid Data.