1 Introduction and Roadmap

This chapter describes the contents and organization of this guide—Tuning Performance of Oracle WebLogic Server.

This chapter includes the following sections:

• Document Scope and Audience

• Guide to this Document

• Performance Features of this Release

Document Scope and Audience

This document is written for people who monitor performance and tune the components in a WebLogic Server environment. It is assumed that readers know server administration and hardware performance tuning fundamentals, WebLogic Server, XML, and the Java programming language.

Guide to this Document

• This chapter, Introduction and Roadmap introduces the organization of this guide.

• Top Tuning Recommendations for WebLogic Server discusses the most frequently recommended steps for achieving optimal performance tuning for applications running on WebLogic Server.

• Performance Tuning Roadmap provides a roadmap to help tune your application environment to optimize performance.

• Tuning Java Virtual Machines (JVMs) discusses JVM tuning considerations.

• Tuning WebLogic Diagnostic Framework and Java Flight Recorder Integration provides information on how WebLogic Diagnostic Framework (WLDF) works with Java Flight Recorder.

• Tuning WebLogic Server contains information on how to tune WebLogic Server to match your application needs.

• Tuning the WebLogic Persistent Store provides information on how to tune a persistent store.

• DataBase Tuning provides information on how to tune your data base.

• Tuning WebLogic Server EJBs provides information on how to tune applications that use EJBs.

• Tuning Message-Driven Beans provides information on how to tune Message-Driven beans.

• Tuning Data Sources provides information on how to tune JDBC applications.

• Tuning Transactions provides information on how to tune Logging Last Resource transaction optimization.

• Tuning WebLogic JMS provides information on how to tune applications that use WebLogic JMS.

• Tuning WebLogic JMS Store-and-Forward provides information on how to tune applications that use JMS Store-and-Forward.

• Tuning WebLogic Message Bridge provides information on how to tune applications that use the WebLogic Message Bridge.

• Tuning Resource Adapters provides information on how to tune applications that use resource adaptors.

• Tuning Web Applications provides best practices for tuning WebLogic Web applications and application resources:

• Tuning Web Services provides information on how to tune applications that use Web services.

• Tuning WebLogic Tuxedo Connector provides information on how to tune applications that use WebLogic Tuxedo Connector.

• Capacity Planning provides an introduction to capacity planning.

New and Changed Performance Features in This Release

WebLogic Server introduces the following performance enhancements:

• Configure XA Transactions without TLogs.

For a comprehensive listing of the new WebLogic Server features introduced in this release, see What's New in Oracle WebLogic Server 12.2.1.3.0.