Oracle WebLogic Server 12c Advanced Administration Cookbook: Over 60 advanced recipes to configure, troubleshoot, and tune Oracle WebLogic Server

285 Pages·2013·3.17 MB·English

by  Dalton Iwazaki

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Oracle WebLogic
Server 12c Advanced
Administration
Cookbook
Over 60 advanced recipes to configure, troubleshoot,
and tune Oracle WebLogic Server
Dalton Iwazaki
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
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Oracle WebLogic Server 12c Advanced
Administration Cookbook
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About the Author
Dalton Iwazaki lives in Sao Paulo, Brazil and started working with technology in 1994 in a
school lab, at the age of 17. As a system administrator, Dalton configured and maintained the
network (Novel 3.12), the computers (Window 3.11, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 95), and the
Internet. He also took his first steps in programming by building the school website in ASP and
a computer voting system to simulate the election process in Delphi.
In 1999, Dalton moved to a new company and started working with Java development. During
this period, he worked on many Java server-side applications and dug deep to understand the
use of JDBC, JMS, JMX, XML, and multithreaded applications. He built some frameworks from
scratch to help the development, and started working on the Application Server world with
IBM Websphere, Resin, Tomcat, JBoss, and BEA WebLogic. Until 2004, Dalton moved around
to other companies working either as a Java developer or Java Architect.
In 2004 and 2005, Dalton worked as a Software Development Manager; he lead 10
developers to build the entire website, provisioning and back office operations of a new ISP
Provider with a variety of integrations and languages, such as Java, VB, C#, Perl, and PHP.
Dalton then moved to a large international bank to work as a project manager in 2005 and
2006. His role was to manage the Internet Banking and Credit Card portals and integrate the
business clients and the development team. From 2006 to 2008, Dalton started and worked
on his own company, a design agency focused on the delivery of web solutions.
In 2008, Dalton started working in partnership with Oracle Consulting on the infrastructure
level of the WebLogic Server. In the following year, Dalton started a new company named
VN Tecnologia, an IT professional services provider and Oracle Partner Network member.
Working together with Oracle's clients and projects, Dalton's solid expertise in infrastructure
and Java development are a rare combination used in his specializations - WebLogic Server
configuration, administration, troubleshooting, and tuning. You can reach Dalton Iwazaki at
[email protected].
I want to thank my family for their support and patience. To my lovely wife
Cibele, my son Ian, and my daughter Lia.
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About the Reviewers
Vivek Acharya is an Oracle Consultant working as a professional freelancer. He has
been a part of the design, development, consulting, and architect world for approximately 7
years, working in Oracle Practice at GE, IBM, HP. He is an Oracle Certified Expert as Oracle
Fusion—SOA 11g Implementation Specialist and Oracle BPM 11g Implementation Specialist.
He has experience and expertise in Oracle Fusion—SOA, BPM, BAM, Mediator, B2B, BI, AIA,
WebLogic, workflow, Rules, WebCenter, ECM, IDM, Oracle fusion applications, SaaS, On
Demand, and so on. He loves all things to do with Oracle Fusion Applications, Oracle SOA,
Oracle BPM, cloud computing, salesforce, SaaS, and BSM.
He has authored a couple of books on distributed systems, Oracle BPM, and many others.
He likes to play Synthesizer and loves travelling. You can add him to your LinkedIn list by
going to the link http://www.linkedin.com/pub/vivek-acharya/15/377/26a,
write to him on [email protected], and read about him and his works at
http://acharyavivek.wordpress.com/.
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Daniel Amadei is a Senior Principal Consultant working for Oracle Consulting Services in
Brazil and has more than 10 years of experience in IT market being a specialized consultant
and solutions architect for SOA and Enterprise Applications. He has strong analytical and
problem-solving abilities with solid experience in development and architecture of applications.
He is a specialist in SOA and EAI Oracle middleware products, web services and related
technologies and the Java Platform, especially Java EE. He has been working with Java since
1999 and SOA/EAI since 2007 and has, at the time of this book' s writing, 8 certifications
related to his specialties, including Oracle Certified SOA Architect, Oracle SOA Foundation
Practitioner and Sun Certified Enterprise Architect for J2EE.
You can write to him on [email protected], and read about his works
at http://www.amadei.com.br.
I'd like to thank the author, Dalton, for writing this great book and for
giving me the chance to learn a lot by reviewing it. I'm mainly a developer,
and getting my hands in this infrastructure book gave me lots of valuable
information.
Wickes Potgieter has worked as a product specialist for over 12 years. His main focus
was on the BEA WebLogic suite of products, and after the Oracle acquisition of BEA Systems,
focused on the Oracle Fusion Middleware suite of products. His experience ranges from
Solution Architecture, Infrastructure Design, administration, development, presales, and
training to performance tuning of the Oracle Fusion Middleware products, JVM, and custom
applications. He specializes in Oracle WebLogic Server, JRockit, Service Bus, SOA, AIA, BPM,
BAM, Enterprise Manager 11g/12c, WebCenter, Identity and Access Management, and
Application Performance Management.
He formed a specialized consulting company in 2003 with offices in the United Kingdom and
South Africa, covering customers in the EMEA region. His company is an Oracle Gold partner
and has a team of specialized Oracle Fusion Middleware consultants servicing customers
both onsite and offsite.
You can visit the TSI-Systems website at www.tsisystems.co.uk, and Wickes can be
contacted on [email protected].
I would like to thank my wife Mary Jane for her patience and for assisting me
through all the late nights. Thank you to all my friends and family for their
constant encouragement.
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Table of Contents
Preface 1
Chapter 1: Install, Configure, and Run 5
Introduction 5
Installing WebLogic Server 12c 6
Creating the WebLogic domain 8
Distributing the domain files to remote machines 12
Starting the Node Manager 13
Starting the Administration Server 15
Saving and activating changes in the Administration Console 18
Protecting changes in the Administration Console 21
Extending and customizing the Administration Console 24
Enabling RESTful Management Services 28
Starting/Stopping the WebLogic Managed Server 31
Deploying applications 35
Chapter 2: High Availability with WebLogic Clusters 39
Introduction 39
Creating a WebLogic cluster 40
Defining a Hostname/Alias for the Listen Address value 45
Configuring HA WebLogic cluster parameters 48
Using Unicast for cluster communications 52
Using Multicast for cluster communications 54
Installing Apache HTTP Server for the Web tier 56
Using the Web Server Plug-in to Load Balance HTTP Requests to WebLogic
cluster 60
Defining a network channel for cluster communications 67
Configuring high availability for Administration Server 73
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