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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

Reducing the server logging level


While logging information to the files is useful, it generates a lot of disk I/O, which has a huge performance impact on the application. Reducing the amount of logging done by the servers can improve performance noticeably.

Getting ready

For details on this, refer to the Getting ready section of the Tuning global transaction timeouts recipe.

How to do it…

To reduce the server logging level, perform the following steps:

  1. Connect to the WebLogic administration console at http://localhost:7001/console.Replace localhost and 7001 with the hostname and port of the server if it is not running locally on 7001. If this is the first time you have accessed the WebLogic console since starting the server, WebLogic will first deploy the console application, which may take a few minutes.

  2. Log in to the console with your administration credentials.

  3. Navigate to Environment, and then Servers on the left-hand navigation pane.

  4. Select the server with the SOA infrastructure. Out-of-the...