How to Use This Chapter

This chapter introduces common architectural designs that leverage OracleAS TopLink. This chapter is not intended to give you all the technical information required to build these architectures, but, instead, introduces the designs and helps you decide which architecture best suits your needs. Other chapters in this document offer details on how to implement the architectures introduced in this chapter, including:

• A typical example illustrating the use of the architecture

• A discussion of some of the technical challenges associated with the architecture

• References to other sections in this document that discuss these challenges in detail and offer the necessary technical information to resolve them