A complete Oracle Press guide to Oracle Fusion Middleware 11 gR1 Featuring best practices for deploying, securing, virtualizing, and managing enterprise-grade Oracle Fusion Middleware applications throughout all life-cycle phases, Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g Architecture and Managementis organized into two parts. Part I provides an end-to-end description of the architecture of Oracle Fusion Middleware componentsWebLogic Server, SOA Suite, WebCenter, Oracle ADF, and Oracle Identity and Access Management Suitewith each chapter introducing a different component of the Oracle Fusion Middleware 11 gR1 stack. Each chapter in this section also introduces a sample application which makes use of the subject component and exposes the interfaces between the application and the component. Part II focuses on provisioning, securing, optimizing, monitoring, scaling, virtualizing, and managing change for applications built on Oracle Fusion Middleware. Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g Architecture and Management Targets life-cycle management for Oracle Fusion Middleware 11 gR1 built enterprise applications Covers the entire stack of Oracle Fusion Middleware 11 gR1 components in depth Provides an end-to-end detailed description of Oracle Fusion Middleware SOA, WebCenter, ADF, and IDM system architecture as well as their dependencies on common components Describes patterns in which the components of each Oracle Fusion Middleware product suite can be configured and deployed, as well as the trade-offs that should be considered Includes advanced topics in the areas of provisioning, securing, optimizing, monitoring, scaling, virtualizing, and managing change for an enterprise-grade application built on Oracle Fusion Middleware Highlights best practicesa series of opinions based on the authors' hard-gained field experience Features a real-world, complex, distributed application throughout the book, leveraging key Oracle WebLogic Server, SOA, ADF, and WebCenter features This Oracle Press guide covers: Oracle WebLogic Server; Oracle Fusion Middleware Runtime Common Components; IDM Components; SOA Suite Components; ADF Components; WebCenter Components; Deploying Oracle Fusion Middleware Enterprise Applications; Securing Oracle Fusion Middleware Enterprise Applications; Optimizing Oracle Fusion Middleware Enterprise Applications; Monitoring and Diagnosing Oracle Fusion Middleware Enterprise Applications; Virtualizing Oracle Fusion Middleware Enterprise Applications Using Oracle Virtualization Technology