5 Next Steps After Configuring the Domain

After you configure a product domain, there are additional tasks that you may want to perform.

Performing Basic Administrative Tasks

After you configure your new domain, there are administration tasks that Oracle recommends you perform on the domain.

The following table lists common administration tasks to perform on your new domain.

Table 5-1 Basic Administration Tasks for a New Domain

Task Description More Information

Getting familiar with Fusion Middleware administration tools

Get familiar with various tools that you can use to manage your environment.

See Overview of Oracle Fusion Middleware Administration Tools in Administering Oracle Fusion Middleware.

Starting and stopping products and servers

Learn how to start and stop Oracle Fusion Middleware, including the Administration Server, Managed Servers, and components.

See Starting and Stopping Oracle Fusion Middleware in Administering Oracle Fusion Middleware.

Configuring Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)

Learn how to set up secure communications between Oracle Fusion Middleware components using SSL.

See Configuring SSL in Oracle Fusion Middleware in Administering Oracle Fusion Middleware.

Monitoring Oracle Fusion Middleware

Learn how to keep track of the status of Oracle Fusion Middleware components.

See Monitoring Oracle Fusion Middleware in Administering Oracle Fusion Middleware.

Understanding Backup and Recovery Procedures

Learn recommended backup and recovery procedures for Oracle Fusion Middleware.

See Introducing Backup and Recovery in Administering Oracle Fusion Middleware.

Performing Additional Domain Configuration Tasks

Review additional configuration tasks you will likely want to perform on a new domain.

Table 5-2 Additional Domain Configuration Tasks

Task Description More Information

Deploying Applications

Learn how to deploy your applications to Oracle Fusion Middleware.

See Deploying Applications in Administering Oracle Fusion Middleware.

Adding a Web Tier front-end to your domain

Oracle Web Tier hosts Web pages (static and dynamic), provides security and high performance along with built-in clustering, load balancing, and failover features. In particular, the Web Tier contains Oracle HTTP Server.

To install and configure Oracle HTTP Server in the WebLogic Server domain, see Configuring Oracle HTTP Server in a WebLogic Server Domain in Installing and Configuring Oracle HTTP Server.

See also Installing Multiple Products in the Same Domain for important information.

Tuning and configuring Coherence for your topology

The standard installation topology includes a Coherence cluster that contains storage-enabled Managed Coherence Servers. This configuration is a good starting point for using Coherence, but depending upon your specific requirements, consider tuning and reconfiguring Coherence to improve performance in a production environment.

For more information about Coherence clusters, see Configuring and Managing Coherence Clusters in Administering Clusters for Oracle WebLogic Server.

For information on tuning Coherence, see Performance Tuning in Administering Oracle Coherence.

For information on storing HTTP session data in Coherence, see Using Coherence*Web with WebLogic Server in Administering HTTP Session Management with Oracle Coherence*Web.

For more about creating and deploying Coherence applications, see Getting Started in Developing Oracle Coherence Applications for Oracle WebLogic Server.

Preparing Your Environment for High Availability

Scaling out for high availability requires additional steps.

Table 5-3 provides a list of tasks to perform if you want to scale out your standard installation environment for high availability.

Table 5-3 Tasks Required to Prepare Your Environment for High Availability

Task Description More Information

Scaling out to multiple host computers

To enable high availability, it is important to provide failover capabilities to another host computer. That way, if one computer goes down, your environment can continue to serve the consumers of your deployed applications.

See Scaling Out a Topology (Machine Scale Out) in the High Availability Guide.

Configuring high availability for your Web Tier components.

If you have added a Web tier front-end, then you must configure the Web Tier for high availability, as well as the WebLogic Server software.

See Configuring High Availability for Web Tier Components in High Availability Guide.

Setting up a front-end load balancer

A load balancer can be used to distribute requests across servers more evenly.

See Server Load Balancing in a High Availability Environment and Configuring Load Balancer Virtual Server Names and Ports in High Availability Guide.

Configuring Node Manager

Node Manager enables you to start, shut down, and restart the Administration Server and Managed Server instances from a remote location. This document assumes you have configured a per-domain Node Manager. Review the Node Manager documentation, for information on advanced Node Manager configuration options and features.

See Advanced Node Manager Configuration in Administering Node Manager for Oracle WebLogic Server.

Using Oracle JDeveloper with Oracle WebCenter Portal

You can use Oracle JDeveloper to edit, deploy, and test Oracle WebCenter Portal assets and components.

About Oracle JDeveloper

Oracle JDeveloper is a free integrated development environment (IDE) for building Web service-oriented applications using industry standards for Java, XML, SQL, and Web Services. It supports the complete development life cycle with integrated features for modeling, coding, debugging, testing, profiling, tuning, and deploying applications. JDeveloper works in tandem with popular open-source frameworks and tools with built-in features for Struts, Ant, JUnit, XDoclets, and CVS, and includes an Extensions SDK that lets developers add capabilities to, and customize, the development environment.

For advanced requirements, developers can use JDeveloper to further develop and deploy portal assets and shared libraries (containing custom portal components).

To install Oracle JDeveloper, refer to Installing Oracle JDeveloper.

Special Instructions When Installing Oracle JDeveloper for Deploying Assets to WebCenter Portal

Typically, you install Oracle JDeveloper on your development machine and connect to a remote Oracle WebCenter Portal domain to deploy and test portal assets and components. You can also create, edit, and extend assets (such as skins or page templates) in JDeveloper, then deploy them to WebCenter Portal. Developers can deploy portal assets or extensions to WebCenter Portal directly from JDeveloper if they have the required permissions. Developers can use JDeveloper to build custom ADF library components for portals, such as managed beans, task flows, and data controls, and deploy them as shared library extensions to the portal server.

Note:

Oracle JDeveloper and Oracle WebCenter Portal must not be installed in the same Oracle home directory. You must create a separate Oracle home for each product.

To deploy portal assets and components using JDeveloper, you must install the Oracle WebCenter Portal extensions for JDeveloper. This extension bundle is a JDeveloper add-in that provides the complete set of Oracle WebCenter Portal capabilities and features. For information about obtaining and installing Oracle JDeveloper, see the Oracle JDeveloper page on OTN at the following URL:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/jdev/overview/index.html

For information about installing the Oracle WebCenter Portal extensions, see Installing the WebCenter Portal Extensions for JDeveloper in Developing WebCenter Portal Assets and Custom Components with Oracle JDeveloper.

Note:

Oracle strongly recommends that you set an environment variable for the user home directory (used by JDeveloper to store the runtime files) that is referenced by JDeveloper. By setting this variable, you can avoid receiving long path name errors that are known to occur in some circumstances. For detailed instructions on setting this variable on Windows, Linux, UNIX, and Mac OS X operating systems, see Setting the User Home Directory in Installing Oracle JDeveloper.