BEA WebLogic® Server 5.1 Administration Course

Audience:

This course is intended for System Administrators who will be responsible for configuring, monitoring and tuning BEA WebLogic Servers in a production environment.

Prerequisites:

• Network administration experience with the knowledge of configuring TCP/IP based networks.
• Database administration experience.
• Systems administration experience.

Course Contents:

Students will be introduced to the different types of application architectures and the differences between monolithic, client/server, and n-tier architectures. Following this is a discussion on the role of J2EE for creating n-tier web based applications. All of the J2EE components will be discussed briefly.

This is a lab section where students are introduced to BEA WebLogic server features. Students will gain an understanding of important property files and console screens that are required to administer WebLogic Server 5.1. Administration utilities used to administer WebLogic server will be addressed.

This section describes the WEB based component application model that differentiates the presentation layer, business logic layer and data store layer. This includes an architectural review of a demo application that will be used throughout this course for demonstrating various key features of WebLogic Server 5.1.

JNDI is one of the important components for developing enterprise-based applications. The JNDI implementation that will be used to bind and lookup objects is discussed in detail. Discussion continues on how to implement database connection pooling so that JDBC drivers can access the connection pool instead of opening a new connection whenever a connection is needed.

This section describes the EJB server-container contract interfaces and implementation details. Concepts like distributed object architectures, component models and component transaction monitors are described followed by an explanation of how the EJB specification addresses all of the above technologies. The differences between CORBA and EJB will also be discussed.

This section analyzes the different clustering models that can improve the performance of a WebLogic Server application. Impact on clustering EJB, JMS and Servlets is analyzed based on the demo application. In the lab session, students will cluster enable the demo application. Performance consideration for different models is discussed in detail.

This section focuses on detail analysis of operating system tuning as well as WebLogic tuning concepts. Heap size and its effect on the Garbage Collection algorithm is discussed. The impact of modifying the execution thread count will be analyzed.

Configuring SSL is discussed in detail. This is followed by a discussion on setting up users and groups for authentication and authorization.

WebLogic HTTP server configuration parameters are discussed in detail. This section will also discuss setting up Apache, Netscape and IIS with WebLogic Server using the appropriate bridges.