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Oracle SOA Suite 11g Performance Tuning Cookbook

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Oracle SOA Suite 11g Performance Tuning Cookbook

Overview of this book

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 Tuning 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 Tuning 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.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Oracle SOA Suite Performance Tuning Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Configuring an OHS load balancer


Oracle HTTP server is an Apache httpd-based Web server that can be used to load balance requests across your SOA Suite cluster. This recipe looks at how to install it.

Getting ready

You will need to download the installer for the Oracle Fusion Middleware Web tier, and have the necessary filesystem permissions on the box on which you wish to install it. Your SOA Suite domain WebLogic admin server will need to be running, and you will need to know its administration credentials.

How to do it…

Follow these steps to install OHS on a target server:

  1. Extract the installer archive, navigate to the Disk1 folder, and execute the setup installer. It will open the welcome screen; click on Next to continue.


  2. Select whether you wish to search for updates, and how you want them to be installed, then click on Next to continue.

  3. Select that you wish to install and configure the server, then click on Next to continue.

  4. The installer will now validate that your system meets the pre-requisites...