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Chapter 3: Partitions 17
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Chapter 3Partitions
This section explains what Partitions are and how they work. It explores the
Partition's footprint, facilities, configuration, and how to run a Partition.
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Partitions Overview
Partitions are the runtime hosting environment for J2EE and web service
application components. A Partition is a process that can be tuned to suit the
application it is hosting. You can create any number of Partitions to isolate,
scale, or cluster your application deployment to meet your own requirements.
Extensive tooling enables you to simply create, configure, and distribute
Partitions to your needs.
A Partition provides containers and services needed for your applications:
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Web Container
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EJB Container
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Naming Service
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Session Service
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Transaction Service
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Connector Service
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JDataStore Database Server
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Partition Lifecycle Interceptor Service