Document Scope and Audience

New and Changed Features In This Release

This release of WebLogic Server supports a subset of GlassFish deployment descriptors so that basic Web applications which deploy and run on GlassFish Server can be deployed on WebLogic Server. For more information and to see the list of supported deployment descriptors, see Appendix C, "Support for GlassFish Deployment Descriptors."

The Web Applications Container

A Web application contains an application's resources, such as servlets, JavaServer Pages (JSPs), JSP tag libraries, and any static resources such as HTML pages and image files. A Web application adds service-refs (Web services) and message-destination-refs (JMS destinations/queues) to an application. It can also define links to outside resources such as Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs).