More Information

For information about planning a high-availability deployment, including assessing hardware requirements, planning network configuration, and selecting a topology, see Sun Java System Application Server Enterprise Edition 8.1 2005Q2 Deployment Planning Guide. This manual also provides a high-level introduction to concepts such as:

• Application server components such as node agents, domains, and clusters

• IIOP load balancing in a cluster

• HADB architecture

• Message queue failover

For more information about developing and deploying applications that take advantage of high availability features, see Sun Java System Application Server Enterprise Edition 8.1 2005Q2 Developer’s Guide.

Tuning High Availability Servers and Applications

For information on how to configure and tune applications and Application Server for best performance with high availability, see Sun Java System Application Server Enterprise Edition 8.1 2005Q2 Performance Tuning Guide, which discusses topics such as:

• Tuning persistence frequency and persistence scope

• Checkpointing stateful session beans

• Configuring the JDBC connection pool

• Session size

• Tuning HADB disk use, memory allocation, performance, and operating system configuration

• Configuring load balancer for best performance