Introduction

The rules and the human workflow components of the SOA Suite provide fewer options for tuning than some of the other components such as BPEL and BPMN, but there are still a number of things to be aware of to ensure that you get the best performance possible. This chapter looks at some of the options available for these components.

Both the human workflow component and the rules component of the Oracle SOA Suite are built on top of the WebLogic server application stack, and the Java virtual machine. This means that for general performance problems, your first step should be to diagnose and resolve any problems that are occurring at the JVM or WebLogic layers, before looking at the recipes in this chapter that focus on tuning the human workflow and the rules components.

The workflow components in particular can make a lot of use of the underlying database schema, and as such, the recipes in Chapter 8, BPEL and BPMN Engine Tuning, relating to the schema tuning also apply here.

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