WebLogic Server 12c: Performance Tuning Workshop

Learn to monitor the effects of a running Oracle WebLogic Server application on the overall system. Increase the performance and scalability of your organisation’s apps & services running on your WebLogic Server. Learn to tune the system at different levels to ensure apps run smoothly without overtaxing available resources. 

Learn how to:

• Describe a typical performance methodology
• Use a load-testing tool such as the Grinder
• Use command-line and graphical tools such as jps, jcmd, Java VisualVM, Mission Control, and Flight Recorder
• Generate and analyze performance data
• Tune operating system resources
• Tune Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and Oracle WebLogic Server parameters

Benefits to You

You develop skills to increase the performance and scalability of your organization’s applications and services with the Oracle WebLogic Server -- the world's #1 application server. You learn how to simplify deployment and significantly improve time-to-market.

Tune the System

You learn how to tune the system at different levels to ensure that applications run smoothly without overtaxing available resources. In addition, you develop an understanding of how performance-test data is generated, gathered, analyzed, and saved.

Identify Performance Differences

You learn how to use a combination of tools to examine system resource, Java Virtual Machine, and Oracle WebLogic Server runtime metrics so that you can identify performance differences before and after configuration changes. You also practice analyzing these differences to determine the settings that optimize application performance.

• Java EE Developers
• SOA Architect
• System Integrator
• Web Administrator
• Project Manager
• Administrator
• Support Engineer
• Technical Consultant

• Configure a work manager for an application.
• Monitor and tune Java EE applications.
• Use a standard tuning methodology.
• Tune an operating system to support WebLogic.
• Monitor and tune JVM performance.
• Monitor and tune server performance.
• Monitor and tune cluster performance.
• Monitor and tune JDBC services.
• Monitor and tune a persistent store.

Tuning Methodology

Introduction to Performance Tuning

Benchmarking

Load and Stress Testing

Identifying Bottlenecks

Performance Monitoring and Testing Tools

Tuning Operating Systems

Operating System Resources

Linux Performance Monitoring

Monitor and Tune JVM Performance

JVM Performance: Overview

The JVM and Garbage Collection

Command-Line JVM Tools

GUI JVM Tools

Monitor and Tune Server Performance

Domain Startup Mode

On-Demand Deployment

Native I/O Performance Pack

Overload Protection

Garbage Collection Thresholds

Connection Backlog

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Tuning

Logging Considerations

Monitor and Tune Cluster Performance

Clustering: Review

Load Balancing and Failover

HTTP Session Persistence: Review

Deployment Packaging

Peer-to-Peer Communication

Basic Cluster Architecture

Multitier Cluster Architecture

Load Balancers

Using the JSP Compiler: jspc

Using the Precompile Option

Setting JSP Page Check Interval

Setting Servlet Reload Check Interval

Defining WebLogic Cache Tag

Monitoring and Tuning Data Sources and Persistent Stores

JDBC: Review

JDBC and Application Design

Connection Pools

Logging Last Resource (LLR) Transactions

Batch Updates

Transactions

Persistent Stores

Database Tuning

Configuring Work Managers

Monitoring a Server Thread Pool

WebLogic Server Thread Tuning

Work Manager

Work Manager Configuration

Tuning Transactions

Monitoring and Tuning Java EE Applications

Tuning Web Applications

Tuning Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs)

Tuning JPA

Tuning Web Services