Oracle SOA Suite 11g Performance Tuning Cookbook

Featuring over 100 recipes, this handy cookbook will walk you through the different ways to optimize the performance of the Oracle SOA Suite 11g. Essential reading for administrators, developers, and architects.

Overview

• Tune the Java Virtual Machine to get the best out of the underlying platform
• Learn how to monitor and profile your Oracle SOA Suite applications
• Discover how to design and deploy your application for high-performance scenarios
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks in your Oracle SOA Suite infrastructure

In Detail

Oracle SOA Suite 11g forms the heart of many organisations’ Service Oriented Architecture. Yet for such a core component, simple information on how to tune and configure SOA Suite and its infrastructure is hard to find. Because Oracle SOA Suite 11g builds on top of a variety of infrastructure components, up until now there has been no one single complete reference that brings together all the best practices for tuning the whole SOA stack.

Oracle SOA Suite 11g Performance Cookbook contains plenty of tips and tricks to help you get the best performance from your SOA Suite infrastructure. From monitoring your environment so you know where bottlenecks are, to tuning the Java Virtual Machine, WebLogic Application Server, and BPEL and BPMN mediator engines, this book will give you the techniques you need in a easy to follow step-by-step guide.

Starting with how to identify problems, and building on that with sections on monitoring, testing, and tuning, the recipes in this book will take you through many of the options available for performance tuning your application.

There are many considerations to make when trying to get the best performance out of the Oracle SOA Suite platform. This performance Cookbook will teach you the whole process of tuning JVM garbage collection and memory, tuning BPEL and BPMN persistence settings, and tuning the application server. This book focuses on bringing together tips on how to identify the key bottlenecks in the whole SOA Suite infrastructure, and how to alleviate them.

The Oracle SOA Suite 11g Performance Cookbook will ensure that you have the tools and techniques to get the most out of your infrastructure, delivering reliable, fast, and scalable services to your enterprise.

What you will learn from this book

• Monitor your SOA Suite environment
• Configure the memory available to the Java Virtual Machine
• Tune the Java garbage collector
• Configure a WebLogic server to handle large loads
• Tune BPEL, BPMN, and Mediator engines
• Performance test your application
• Design your SOA Suite components for maximum performance
• Configure a cluster of SOA Suite servers
• Tune the operating system and virtualization layers for SOA Suite

Approach

This is a Cookbook with interesting, hands-on recipes, giving detailed descriptions and lots of practical walkthroughs for boosting the performance of your Oracle SOA Suite.

Who this book is written for

This book is for Oracle SOA Suite 11g administrators, developers, and architects who want to understand how they can maximise the performance of their SOA Suite infrastructure. The recipes contain easy to follow step-by-step instructions and include many helpful and practical tips. It is suitable for anyone with basic operating system and application server administration experience.

Matt Brasier

Matt Brasier is a professional services consultant with 10 years of experience tuning Enterprise Java applications. He has 9 years of experience working with Enterprise Java middleware, and has always focused on the performance aspects of application servers and SOA platforms. Matt has spoken at numerous technical conferences, including The Serverside Java Symposium and JUDCon.

Matt is the head of consulting at C2B2 Consulting Ltd., an independent middleware consultancy specializing in SOA and JEE, providing professional services on the leading Java middleware platforms. C2B2 is an Oracle Gold Partner with Application Grid Specialization.