1 Introduction and Roadmap

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

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, 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, "Operating System Tuning," discusses operating system issues.
Chapter 5, "Tuning Java Virtual Machines (JVMs)," discusses JVM tuning considerations.
Chapter 6, "Tuning WebLogic Diagnostic Framework and JRockit Flight Recorder Integration," discusses tbd.
Chapter 7, "Tuning WebLogic Server," contains information on how to tune WebLogic Server to match your application needs.
Chapter 8, "Tuning the WebLogic Persistent Store," provides information on how to tune a persistent store.
Chapter 9, "DataBase Tuning," provides information on how to tune your data base.
Chapter 10, "Tuning WebLogic Server EJBs," provides information on how to tune applications that use EJBs.
Chapter 11, "Tuning Message-Driven Beans," provides information on how to tune Message-Driven beans.
Chapter 12, "Tuning JDBC Applications," provides information on how to tune JDBC applications.
Chapter 13, "Tuning Logging Last Resource," provides information on how to tune Logging Last Resource transaction optimization.
Chapter 14, "Tuning WebLogic JMS," provides information on how to tune applications that use WebLogic JMS.
Chapter 15, "Tuning WebLogic JMS Store-and-Forward," provides information on how to tune applications that use JMS Store-and-Forward.
Chapter 16, "Tuning WebLogic Message Bridge," provides information on how to tune applications that use the Weblogic Message Bridge.
Chapter 17, "Tuning Resource Adapters," provides information on how to tune applications that use resource adaptors.
Chapter 18, "Tuning Web Applications," provides best practices for tuning WebLogic Web applications and application resources:
Chapter 19, "Tuning Web Services," provides information on how to tune applications that use Web services.
Chapter 20, "Tuning WebLogic Tuxedo Connector," provides information on how to tune applications that use WebLogic Tuxedo Connector.
Appendix A, "Using the WebLogic 8.1 Thread Pool Model," provides information on using execute queues.
Appendix B, "Capacity Planning," provides an introduction to capacity planning.

Performance Features of this Release

WebLogic Server introduces the following performance enhancements: