In WebLogic Workshop you create and build an application . A WebLogic Workshop application is a J2EE Enterprise Application and ultimately produces a J2EE Enterprise Application Archive (EAR) file. An application may contain: one or more projects libraries and modules security roles This topic introduces applications and their contents. Applications An application in WebLogic Workshop is the collection of all resources and components that are deployed as a unit to an instance of WebLogic Server. It is also the top-level unit of work that you manipulate with WebLogic Workshop IDE. In the IDE, you may have at most one application open at a time.
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