Introduction

In this chapter, we'll focus on recipes for designing high performance SOA Suite 11g applications. These recipes look at how you can design your applications for high performance and scalability, where high performance is defined as providing low response times even under load, and scalability is defined as the ability to expand to cope with large numbers of requests.

While many of the recipes in other chapters can be applied after the application has been designed and written, those in this chapter need to be applied while the application is being written, and may require that your application is implemented in a certain way. Designing an application with performance as a requirement from the start is much easier than trying to add performance to an application that is already live. So, the recipes in this chapter provide some of the best value for money in terms of getting the most performance out of your SOA Suite infrastructure. However, while this book focuses on decisions...