10 Tuning for Performance

Oracle Application Server TopLink applications are usually quite complex, and offer many opportunities for optimization. When you take an iterative approach to tuning, and you design your applications for peak efficiency, the result is an OracleAS TopLink application that is fast, smooth, and robust.

This chapter illustrates different methods to improve application performance. It discusses:

• Introduction to Tuning Concepts

• Profiling Performance

• General Tuning Tips

• Basic Performance Optimization

• OracleAS TopLink Reading Optimization Features

• OracleAS TopLink Writing Optimization Features

• Schema Optimization