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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 data source testing


Database connections that are pooled can be configured to be tested by WebLogic as part of the managed-connection lifecycle. This recipe will show you how to configure testing of connections.

Getting ready

For this recipe, you will need to have Oracle SOA Suite 11g installed on a server as we'll be accessing the default data source used by SOA Suite.

How to do it…

By following the steps given here, we can configure data-source testing:

  1. Open the SOA Suite WebLogic administration console and log in as administrator. If you have issues locating the console, see steps 1 and 2 in the Tuning global transactions recipe in Chapter 6, Platform Tuning.

  2. Navigate to the Data Sources section by performing either of the following actions:

    • Click on the Data Sources link under the Services drop-down list in the Domain Structure box located on the left of the screen

    • In the Home Page box in the center of the screen, under Services in Domain Configurations, select Data Sources

  3. In the...