Introduction to Weblogic Server

• **Introduction to JAVA --- OOPS

•  Introduction to OOPS

•  Web Server and its origin

•  Application Server: Origin, Benefits

• Distributed Architecture

• What is Weblogic Server

 Note: ** means incase if required

Introduction to Weblogic

Server……

• Architecture of Weblogic Server

•  Installation of Weblogic Server: GUI, Console, Silent Mode Installation

• Common issues related to the weblogic server installation

• Overview of directory structure, post installing weblogic server

Stepping in to the Weblogic Server

•  Introduction to Domain

•  Domain creation: GUI, Console mode

•  Domain file system and its importance

• Overview about license.bea file, serialisedSystemIni.dat file, registry.xml, boot.properties file

• Administration Server: Syntax to start/stop

• Managed Server: Create, understanding, Syntax to start/stop

• MSI mode

Stepping in to the Weblogic Server…

• Overview about Admin Console

•  Node Manager: Creating/starting/Stopping of servers using admin console

• Admin Console security: user groups and roles

• running-manged-servers.xml

• Overview of license.bea file

• Common issues

Clusters

• What is cluster

• Types of clusters

• Creation of clusters

• Cluster constraints

• Cluster communication: IP Sockets, Heart Beats

• Cluster features: high availability, fail safe, maintainability

• Implementation of clusters in J2EE Applications

• Session Replication failover techniques

• Common issues and problem determination related to clusters

Deploying of Application on Weblogic Servers

• Types of packaging  of application: jar, war, ear file system

• Different ways of deploying the application in weblogic server

• Hot and Cold Deployment of applications

• Targeting of applications over clusters

• Staging modes

• 2-phase deployment

• Common issues related to weblogic server deployment

Proxy Server and its Configuration

• What are proxy servers?

• List of Proxy servers supported by weblogic

• Configuration of proxy servers with weblogic

• Deploying and accessing applications with the proxy server

• Understanding the general flow of the dynamic URL’s

• Common issues related to the weblogic proxy servers

Connection Pools, Multi-Pools

• What is connection pool, Data source, multi-pool

• Process to create connection and multi-pool

• Parameters required to define the connection pool size

• Common issues

Working with Weblogic Security

• What is weblogic server security

• Making weblogic more secure

• Configuring of User roles inside weblogic server

• Types of certificates

• Installation of SSL certificate on weblogic server

Performance Tuning in weblogic server

•  Importance of performance tuning

• How and when we do the performance tuning

• Performance tuning levels:

• 1) OS level

• 2) Network level

• 3) JVM level

• 4) Database and JDBC performance tuning