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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

Using BPEL process parallelization


By having your BPEL process execute steps in parallel when there are no dependencies, you can increase the performance by spending less time waiting for external systems to complete.

Getting ready

You will need JDeveloper installed, and have an open BPEL project.

How to do it...

Follow these steps to use BPEL process parallelization:

  1. Expand the BPEL Constructs section in the component palette.

  2. Drag Flow from the palette onto the process.

  3. Click on the + icon next to the flow to expand it.

  4. Populate the flow with the process steps.

How it works...

If you have a number of tasks that do not have dependencies on each other, you can improve performance by executing the preceding tasks in parallel. This is most effective with partner links, where you know you are waiting on an external system to produce a response. The default behaviors of these flows is still to use a single thread to execute the branches if external systems are invoked. See the Using non-blocking service...