A development environment typically consists of a single-server J2EE container for unit testing Web and enterprise J2EE applications. In contrast a production environment is far more likely to be a complex, clustered configuration. Problems discovered during production-level testing of...

Caching information on the WebLogic tier can significantly increase performance and reduce the number of external system calls needed for data retrieval. This is especially true when an application wants to store bits of information that rarely change, such as a list of countries or ca...