Part I Introduction

Performance tuning is essential for improving system performance. Therefore, it is important to understand the basic performance concepts and how to design applications for performance and scalability.

This part contains the following topics:

• Introduction and Roadmap
  Tuning Performance addresses topics pertinent to application developers, Oracle Fusion Middleware administrators, database administrators, and web masters.
• Top Performance Areas
  By identifying top performance areas, you can tune Oracle Fusion Middleware for optimal performance.
• Performance Planning
  A clearly defined plan for achieving your performance objectives is essential for deciding what to trade for higher performance.
• Monitoring
  Oracle Fusion Middleware provides a variety of technologies and tools that monitor server and application performance.
• Using the Oracle Dynamic Monitoring Service
  The Oracle Dynamic Monitoring Service (DMS) publishes component performance data.