Preface

Oracle WebLogic Server 12c Advanced Administration Cookbook guides you through over 60 recipes covering right from the basics of the WebLogic Server 12c installation to JDBC, JMS, cluster configuration, and tuning. This book covers the day-to-day tasks of a WebLogic administrator, and is enhanced with a lot of tips to build a WebLogic production environment focused on stability, high availability, and performance.

What this book covers

Chapter 1, Install, Configure, and Run, covers the first steps to installing and configuring WebLogic Server 12c.

Chapter 2, High Availability with WebLogic Clusters, explains how to set up a WebLogic Cluster.

Chapter 3, Configuring JDBC Resources for High Availability, teaches how to configure and tune the JDBC resources focused on high availability.

Chapter 4, Configuring JMS Resources for Clustering and High Availability, teaches how to set up JMS resources with WebLogic Clustering.

Chapter 5, Monitoring WebLogic Server 12c, explains how to monitor WebLogic Server 12c with the included tools.

Chapter 6, Troubleshooting WebLogic Server 12c, teaches how to find solutions to the most common problems.

Chapter 7, Stability and Performance, teaches how to tune the configuration for a production environment with resilience, stability, and performance.

Chapter 8, Security, teaches how to configure security, including SSL and authentication.

What you need for this book

You'll need the following:

• Oracle WebLogic Server 1 2 c: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/weblogic/downloads/index.html

• Oracle JRockit 6 R28: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/jrockit/downloads/index.html

• Apache HTTP Server 2.2: http://httpd.apache.org

Who this book is for

The book is targeted at the datacenter operator, system administrator, or Java developer who already knows the basics of WebLogic Server installation and configuration, but wants to go deeper into more advanced topics and concepts, such as monitoring, configuration for high availability, and tuning to achieve a stable and resilient environment.

Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "The filename is jrockit-jdk1.6.0_XXX-linux-x64.bin, where XXX stands for the JRockit release and JDK version."

A block of code is set as follows:

<Location /app01>
SetHandler weblogic-handler
WebLogicCluster prodsrv01.domain.local:8001,prodsrv02.domain.local:8002,prodsrv03.domain.local:8003,prodsrv04.domain.local:8004
</Location>

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

[wls@prod01]$ cd $WL_HOME/common/bin

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, in menus or dialog boxes for example, appear in the text like this: "Follow the onscreen instructions and type /oracle/Middleware for the "Middleware Home" = [Enter new value or use default] screen".

Note

Warnings or important notes appear in a box like this.

Tip

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