At the completion of this course, the student will be able to:
Understand the principles of performance tuning
Understand the various components that affect overall system performance
Understand basic terminology like throughput, bottleneck and burstiness
Analytically and scientifically perform load tests to assess and improve performance
Configure and tune WebLogic Server to performance best practices
Understand how both the Sun and JRockit JVMs interact with WebLogic Server
Use WebLogic Server and JVM provided performance tools to observe JVM performance
Configure and tune the Java Virtual Machine memory settings for optimal performance
Understand (and configure) the impacts of threads, JDBC and JMS on performance
Understand clustering architecture
Topics
Performance Tuning Foundations
Tuning the Sun HotSpot JVM
Tuning the Oracle JRockit JVM
Threads and Work Managers
Tuning JMS and JDBC
The WebLogic Diagnostic Framework
Clustering
Audience
WebLogic Server administrators, developers and consultants who want to know how best to tune a WebLogic Server environment for high performance production environments.
Prerequisites
Familiarity with basic WebLogic Server administration.