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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

Designing advanced load tests


In this recipe, we'll look at the ways in which you can create more varied tests that we can use to more closely replicate realistic user loads.

Getting ready

You will need to install Oracle SOA Suite 11g for this recipe.

You'll need to complete the Installing Apache JMeter recipe . We'll also be reusing the JMeter test from the Creating a web service test using JMeter recipe, which you can reload for this recipe. We'll use a CSV dataset, which you can get from the book's website, or you can create your own.

How to do it…

These steps will demonstrate some of the more advanced features of JMeter testing:

  1. Start JMeter with $JMETER_HOME/bin/jmeterw.cmd on Windows, or jmeter.sh on Linux.

  2. Open the saved test plan from the Creating a web service test by using JMeter recipe, or load the sample provided with the book source code. Modify the test, if required, to use the correct hostname and port information in the WebService(SOAP) Request.

  3. Right-click on Response Assertion...