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

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.