Chapter 12. Java and Composite Applications Monitoring and Diagnostics

Application hangs and performance issues appear in many applications in the production environment. These problems in production applications cause availability and service level issues. Diagnosing these application performance issues is very challenging for application administrators and support personnel. Often these issues are hard to reproduce in a test and development environment, and most diagnostic tools are too inadequate to be used in the production environment. Oracle Enterprise Manager has two products: Composite Application Monitor and Modeler (CAMM) and Application Diagnostics for Java (AD4J) that are used to diagnose application issues.

CAMM allows you to diagnose performance issues in composite applications, whereas AD4J allows you to diagnose issues such as memory leak and application in Java applications and the underlying JVM.

In this chapter, you will learn how you can effectively use these two tools...