Oracle SOA Suite 11g Performance Tuning Cookbook

328 Pages·2013·23.853 MB·English

by  Matt Brasier, Nicholas Wright

Oracle SOA Suite
Performance Tuning
Cookbook
Over 100 recipes to get the best performance from
your Oracle SOA Suite 11g infrastructure
Matt Brasier
Nicholas Wright
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
Oracle SOA Suite Performance Tuning
Cookbook
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Credits
Authors Project Coordinators
Matt Brasier Abhishek Kori
Nicholas Wright Wendell Palmer
Reviewers Proofreaders
Sandeep Phukan Elinor Perry Smith
Sylvain GROSJEAN Stephen Silk
Tumelo Mametsa
Indexer
Acquisition Editors Hemangini Bari
Grant Mizen
Graphics
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About the Authors
Matt Brasier is a professional services consultant with 10 years of experience tuning
Enterprise Java applications. He has 9 years of experience working with Enterprise Java
middleware, and has always focused on the performance aspects of application servers
and SOA platforms. Matt has spoken at numerous technical conferences, including
The Serverside Java Symposium and JUDCon.
Matt is the head of consulting at C2B2 Consulting Ltd., an independent middleware
consultancy specializing in SOA and JEE, providing professional services on the leading Java
middleware platforms. C2B2 is an Oracle Gold Partner with Application Grid Specialization.
I would like to thank my partner, Caroline, and our dog, Minstrel, for their
understanding while I was writing this book, my father for encouraging me at
the start, and C2B2 for giving me the time and experience necessary to do it.
Nicholas Wright is a Java middleware consultant and technical evangelist with 9 years
of experience from Embedded C real-time systems to Enterprise Java. He has served on a
Java Community Process Expert Group, and spoken at conferences across the world.
Nick is a senior consultant at C2B2 Consulting Ltd., where he works with a wide range
of commercial and open source JEE and SOA middleware platforms.
I would like to thank my family, friends, and colleagues for whom I have
disappeared off the face of the Earth while working on this book. For your
patience and understanding, I thank you. Mostly I must thank my partner,
Kay Louise, for putting up with my continual slaving over a computer
whenever I have any spare time, love you.
About the Reviewers
Sandeep Phukan has more than 9 years of experience in Integration Technologies and
Java. Sandeep currently works as a Senior Consultant with Anatas Technology Services, Sydney,
a leader in next generation Enterprise Architecture Solutions. Earlier, Sandeep worked as a
Technical Lead for Nokia Siemens Network R&D, Bangalore, assisting on the integration of Next
Generation Unified Convergent Billing Systems based on Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g.
Prior to this, Sandeep worked with Oracle SSI, Bangalore as a Senior Consultant, where
his key involvement was Oracle AIA for Communications (Telco PIP). During this period he
travelled to several countries around the world, aiding customers in developing customizations
for Oracle AIA artifacts.
Sandeep is a certified Java Developer and has a keen interest in Low Bandwidth Transports
and Distributed Algorithms. During his time at Oracle SSI, Sandeep was actively involved with
the SSI Innovation Centre where he created a number of utility extensions to the Oracle SOA
Suite. Sandeep also maintains an open source repository of several SOA utilities in the Google
code repository http://code.google.com/p/soalabs/.
Sandeep is also an avid researcher in the area of SOA Governance. He has published a
number of papers in the Oracle Technology Network (OTN) on technology neutral Designtime
Dependency analysis of SOA Artifacts. One of his inventions on this subject (Graph Based
Designtime Dependency Analysis) has recently been accepted for a Patent in the US Patents
and Trademarks Office (USPTO).
I would like to thank my loving wife Aparupa for her patience during those
late night researches, and my friends and colleagues at Anatas who were
always there whenever I needed them.
Sylvain GROSJEAN is a principal Oracle Fusion Middleware consultant currently working
as a freelancer in France.
Over the past 12 years, he collaborated with BEA, and then with Oracle Consulting as a
solution architect and trainer helping multiple major French clients (Utilities, Transportation,
Insurance, Healthcare, Telecom).
His primary focus is on Oracle Service Bus, Oracle SOA Suite, Oracle BPM, and ADF.
You can follow Sylvain through his own blog at http://sgrosjean.blogspot.com
Tumelo Mametsa is an Oracle Fusion Middleware expert currently consulting on various
projects in South Africa and other African countries. He has over 10 years of experience in
the Electronics and IT fields, respectively, with increasing level of responsibility. He is currently
providing senior leadership for solutions architecture, enterprise architecture, business process
engineering efforts, including SOA and Open Source Solutions for Africom IT Solutions.
His focus is on engineered systems using various technologies, primarily the Oracle Fusion
Middleware Stack. He also provides training for Oracle on Oracle Fusion Middleware Products.
To my extended, supportive, loving Mametsa family (Mpho, Stlaks, Tshepo,
Nunu, Letsie, Gontse), thanks for always being there for me. Much love
to my darling wife Tsakani and kids, Tumisa, and Seetja. You guys make
everything worthwhile. Thanks to my partners at Africom IT Solutions, you
are the best team to work with by far. Much appreciation to all my friends
(the Zoo) for individually supporting me in your unique ways, without you
guys I would not be able to expertly juggle so many balls.
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Table of Contents
Preface 1
Chapter 1: Identifying Problems 5
Introduction 6
Identifying new size problems with jstat 7
Identifying permanent generation problems with jstat 9
Monitoring garbage collection with jstat 10
Identifying locking issues with jstack 12
Identifying performance problems with jstack 14
Identifying performance problems using VisualVM on HotSpot 16
Identifying performance problems using JRMC on JRockit 21
Using JRockit flight recorder to identify problems 24
Monitoring JDBC connections with the WebLogic console 28
Identifying slow-running database queries 32
Identifying slow-running components with the Enterprise Manager 33
Chapter 2: Monitoring Oracle SOA Suite 35
Introduction 36
Installing the Hyperic server 37
Installing Hyperic agents 42
Configuring Hyperic to monitor SOA Suite 11g 46
Monitoring the SOA Suite server availability 51
Monitoring the JVM memory usage 54
Monitoring the platform CPU usage 58
Monitoring the data source usage 60
Monitoring open sockets 63
Monitoring committed transactions 66
Configuring alerts in Hyperic 69
Monitoring the system using the DMS servlet 72