WebLogic Server Request Management

The ability to efficiently process incoming application requests in parallel is an important element of the WebLogic Server architecture. WebLogic Server’s request management infrastructure ensures that incoming requests are associated with a server thread and properly dispatched to their destination—be it a servlet, EJB, or any other container. In this section we will analyze this infrastructure in more detail.

Connection and Port Management

Incoming requests must be sent to a server’s listen port. Although, by default, a server has a single listen port, there are three ways in which this can be changed:

Enable the server’s SSL port. As its name suggests, this port is used for all SSL-based connections. We will cover SSL connections in more detail within