Preface

This preface describes the document accessibility features and conventions used in this guide: Administering Oracle WebLogic Server with RESTful Management Services.

The Preface includes the following topics:

Document Scope and Audience

This document describes how to use Oracle WebLogic Server RESTful management interfaces for administration, monitoring, deploying, and configuration tasks, which are exposed for developing RESTful clients.

The user communities for this documentation are administrators who might use cURL commands to invoke these resources in administration scripts, and software developers who will use this information when writing code, perhaps in Java, perhaps in other languages, that monitors and manages WLS domains.

New and Changed Features in this Release

For a comprehensive listing of all the new Oracle WebLogic Server features introduced in this release, see What's New in Oracle WebLogic Server.

Conventions

The following text conventions are used in this document:

Convention Meaning

boldface

Boldface type indicates graphical user interface elements associated with an action, or terms defined in text or the glossary.

italic

Italic type indicates book titles, emphasis, or placeholder variables for which you supply particular values.

monospace

Monospace type indicates commands within a paragraph, URLs, code in examples, text that appears on the screen, or text that you enter.