This chapter describes the contents and organization of this guide—Tuning Performance of Oracle WebLogic Server.
This chapter includes the following sections:
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.
This chapter, Chapter 1, "Introduction and Roadmap," introduces the organization of this guide.
Chapter 2, "Top Tuning Recommendations for WebLogic Server," discusses the most frequently recommended steps for achieving optimal performance tuning for applications running on WebLogic Server.
Chapter 3, "Performance Tuning Roadmap," provides a roadmap to help tune your application environment to optimize performance.
Chapter 4, "Tuning Java Virtual Machines (JVMs)," discusses JVM tuning considerations.
Chapter 5, "Tuning WebLogic Diagnostic Framework and Java Flight Recorder Integration," provides information on how WebLogic Diagnostic Framework (WLDF) works with Java Flight Recorder.
Chapter 6, "Tuning WebLogic Server," contains information on how to tune WebLogic Server to match your application needs.
Chapter 7, "Tuning the WebLogic Persistent Store," provides information on how to tune a persistent store.
Chapter 8, "DataBase Tuning," provides information on how to tune your data base.
Chapter 9, "Tuning WebLogic Server EJBs," provides information on how to tune applications that use EJBs.
Chapter 10, "Tuning Message-Driven Beans," provides information on how to tune Message-Driven beans.
Chapter 11, "Tuning Data Sources," provides information on how to tune JDBC applications.
Chapter 12, "Tuning Transactions," provides information on how to tune Logging Last Resource transaction optimization.
Chapter 13, "Tuning WebLogic JMS," provides information on how to tune applications that use WebLogic JMS.
Chapter 14, "Tuning WebLogic JMS Store-and-Forward," provides information on how to tune applications that use JMS Store-and-Forward.
Chapter 15, "Tuning WebLogic Message Bridge," provides information on how to tune applications that use the WebLogic Message Bridge.
Chapter 16, "Tuning Resource Adapters," provides information on how to tune applications that use resource adaptors.
Chapter 17, "Tuning Web Applications," provides best practices for tuning WebLogic Web applications and application resources:
Chapter 18, "Tuning Web Services," provides information on how to tune applications that use Web services.
Chapter 19, "Tuning WebLogic Tuxedo Connector," provides information on how to tune applications that use WebLogic Tuxedo Connector.
Appendix A, "Capacity Planning," provides an introduction to capacity planning.
WebLogic Server introduces the following performance enhancements: