This course teaches the basics of the administration and deployment of Web applications in the BEA WebLogic Server 7.0 on the Solaris operating system.

You Will Learn How To:

At the completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• Understand WebLogic architecture
• Understand deployments of EJB and Web applications
• Understand how to run WebLogic as a Web server
• Set up WebLogic Server test environments for developers
• Start/stop servers, problem detection and trouble shooting
• Use clustering for fault tolerance and load balancing
• Configure and monitor resources in a production environment
• Conduct security planning and implementation
• Handle large throughput and concurrency
• Understand performance tuning.

Course Topics

Course Prerequisites

• Knowledge and experience of network management and protocols
• Knowledge and experience of RDBMS

Who Should Attend?

Web server administrators, project managers, developers and consultants who want to gain the knowledge of WebLogic Server administration.

Course Outline

J2EE and WebLogic Server

• N-tier architecture
• J2EE architecture
• WebLogic Server terminologies
• WebLogic Server architecture

WebLogic Server Administration Basics

• Overview
• Role of an administrator
• JMX-based and SNMP-based administration
• Configuration
• Monitoring and logging
• Deployments
• Services
• Transaction
• Security
• Tuning

Configure and Monitor Domains, Servers and Machines

• Overview
• Configure domain, domain logging and applications
• Configure and monitor servers
• Create a machine in a domain

WebLogic Security Management

• Security overview
• Set up the Java Security Manager
• Create a security realm
• Define users and groups
• Define access control and permission
• Configure the SSL protocol
• Password protection
• Install an audit provider
• Install a connection filter

Use WebLogic Server as a Web Server

• Overview
• Set up WebLogic for HTTP requests
• Set up standard MIME type
• Use HTTP Server logs
• Set up session management

WebLogic Server Deployments

• Application assembly basics
• Application format and directory structure
• Configured deployment
• Hot deployment
• Auto deployment
• Enterprise application deployment
• EJB deployment
• WebLogic Server deployment descriptor editor
• Web application deployment

JNDI

• JNDI basics
• JNDI context
• Object lookup using JNDI
• JNDI in datasource, JMS, and EJB deployment
• Monitoring JNDI tree

WebLogic Server Transaction Management

• Overview
• WebLogic Server transaction support
• Configure WebLogic transactions
• Monitor and logging transactions

Create, Configure and Monitor JDBC Services

• Overview
• JDBC drivers
• JDBC connection and transaction
• JDBC connection pools
• JDBC datasources

Create, Configure and Monitor JMS Services

• Overview
• MOM and JMS
• JMS domains
• JMS connection factories
• JMS servers, JMS queues, JMS topics

WebLogic Server Clustering

• Overview
• How clusters work
• Cluster configuration planning
• Cluster configuration tasks
• Cluster administration

WebLogic Server Performance Tuning

• Overview
• JVM tuning
• Operating system tuning
• WebLogic server tuning
• WebLogic client tuning
• Performance analysis tools

The Node Manager

• Overview
• Node Manager Architecture
• Node Manager Functionality
• Setting up the Node Manager
• Node Manager Logging

Web Services Support in WebLogic Server

• Overview
• Why do we need web services?
• Web Services Supporting Architecture Standards
• The role of SOAP, UDDI and WSDL
• Web Service Components in WebLogic
• Administering WebLogic Web Services