This course teaches the basics of the administration and deployment of Web applications in the BEA WebLogic Server 8.1 on Linux.

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.

J2EE and WebLogic Server

• N-tier Architecture
• Tiered Architectures
• Presentation Layer
• Middle Tier
• Model View Controller
• Java Web Applications
• Java Web Application Architecture
• J2EE Architecture
• Typical Services provided by Application Servers
• BEA WebLogic Product Family
• WebLogic Server
• WebLogic Server Component Containers and Application Services
• Web Application Programming Model MVC
• A Scenario of Using MVC

WebLogic Administration Basics

• WebLogic Administration Domain
• WebLogic Administration Server
• WebLogic Managed Server
• WebLogic Administration
• Administrative Console
• Role of an Administrator
• start WebLogic Server startWeblogic.cmd
• A Close Look at startWeblogic.cmd
• WebLogic Server Running Modes
• Set up WebLogic Server as Windows Service
• Open WebLogic Administration Console
• Configuration of the WebLogic Domain
• config.xml XML Tags
• config.xml.booted
• Creating A New Domain
• The Configuration Wizard
• Creating A New Domain
• Select Your Domain Type
• Express vs. Custom
• Administrative User
• Server Mode / JDK
• Configuration Summary
• Creation Complete!
• Newly Created Domain
• Start the admin server in the New Domain
• Start a Managed Server
• Stop the WebLogic Server
• Startup and Shutdown Classes
• WebLogic Server Commands
• WebLogic Command Example
• Other tasks that can be performed in the Admin Console

WebLogic Monitoring and Logging

• Monitor Servers
• Security
• JMS
• JTA
• Version
• Logging
• WebLogic Logging System
• Format of Logging Message
• Server Logging weblogic.log
• Server Logging Rotation
• View Server Logging from admin console
• Configure Domain Logging
• Domain Log
• Domain Log View Customization
• Customize a Domain Log View

JNDI

• Objectives
• What is JNDI?
• Naming Service
• Benefits of JNDI
• JNDI
• JNDI Service Providers
• JNDI Core Definitions
• Common JNDI Tasks
• Four Components Needed to do JNDI
• JNDI name for EJBs
• JNDI names for Data Sources
• JNDI name for JMS Destination
• JNDI Trees In A Server
• Viewing the JNDI Tree For A Server

JDBC Service

• Types of JDBC Drivers
• Working with a Database via JDBC (Client side)
• The Need for Connection Pooling
• Connection Pooling and Data Sources
• Connecting with Data Source
• Steps in using Connection Pooling
• Admin Tasks for Connection Pools and Data Sources
• Create a Connection Pool
• Connection Properties
• Review and Verify Settings
• Target To Server
• Configure Pool Parameters
• Create a JDBC Data Source
• Connect to the connection pool
• Target the data source
• Data Source created
• CMP Beans and Data Sources
• Data Source Name in weblogic-rdbms-jar.xml

WebLogic Server Deployments

• The Process
• WebLogic Server Deployments
• Types of Deployments
• Configured Deployment
• Deployment Archives
• Uploading An Application
• Targeting The Application
• Deploying The Application
• Success!
• Deploying from the Command Line
• Auto Deployment
• Auto Deployment set up from the Admin Console
• Web Applications
• Format of Web Application
• WEB-INF Directory
• Web Application Directory
• Examine the content of a .WAR file
• WAR - Deployment Descriptors
• Write the web.xml
• Write the weblogic.xml
• Example of weblogic.xml use
• weblogic.xml Step1
• weblogic.xml Step 2
• weblogic.xml Step 3
• weblogic.xml Step 4
• weblogic.xml Step5
• Package a Web Application
• jar utility
• Web Descriptor View
• Enterprise .EAR Files
• EJB .JAR file
• EJB Deployment Descriptors
• ejb-jar.xml top level tags
• weblogic-ejb-jar.xml Top Level Tags
• weblogic-cmp-rdbms-jar.xml Top Level Tags
• Format of Deployment Descriptors
• Element Relationship in DDs
• JAR File Directory Structure
• Pack a .JAR File
• Examine a Jar File s Content
• An EJB Example Stateless Session Bean
• Run the Java Application
• Deployment Descriptors for applications and components

 WebLogic Server as a Web Server

• Configure HTTP
• HTTP Access Log
• Setup the HTTP Access Log for a Server
• HTTP Access Log File access.log
• The log file
• Virtual Hosts
• Create a Virtual Host
• Target Your Virtual Host
• Find your IP address
• Add to the HOSTS file
• Delete a Virtual Host
• Target Deployments to Virtual Hosts
• Web Applications
• Deployment Hosting and Default Web Applications
• Setup HTTP Access Log for a Virtual Host
• Prevention of Denial-of-Service Attack
• Denial of Service Prevention Setting Web Server
• Denial of Service Prevention Setting Virtual Host

WebLogic Security

• Security In the WebLogic Server
• Resources To Be Protected
• Security Providers
• Auditors
• Authenticators and Identity Asserters
• Authorizers
• Adjudicators
• Role Mappers
• Credential Mappers
• Keystore
• Security Realms
• Security Administration Tasks
• User Management
• User Lockout Configuration
• Groups
• Group Management
• Roles
• Role Management
• Role Membership
• Security Policies
• Setting Policies
• Security on J2EE Resources
• Security in Deployment Descriptors
• Ignoring DD Security
• Using Policies To Secure A WAR (ignoring DD security)
• Defining A Scoped Role
• Defining A Security Policy
• Defining A Security Policy
• Accessing The Resource
• Using the WebLogic Builder
• J2EE Security
• Launch the WebLogic Builder
• The WebLogic Builder
• Defining A Role
• Define A Security Constraint
• Enable DD Security
• Secured Deployment
• Alternate User Authentication

Transaction Management

• Transaction Management
• Object Transaction
• A.C.I.D. Properties
• 2PC Two Phase Commit
• What J2EE Components can Participate in Transaction?
• JTA Configuration for a Domain
• JTA Configuration Parameters
• Set Transaction Logging
• Transaction Monitoring
• EJB Transaction Basics
• Transaction Propagation
• Client-Managed Transaction
• Bean-Managed Transaction
• Where to Define the Transaction Type of an EJB
• Bean-Managed Transaction
• Container-Managed Transaction
• Transaction Attributes
• Where to Define CMT Transaction Type
• Transaction Outcome
• Transaction Isolation
• Isolation Level
• Use WebLogic Builder to set Isolation Level

Managing JMS Service

• JMS
• What is a Message?
• Types of JMS domain
• PTP Queue
• Publish/Subscribe Topic
• Publishing a Message in JMS
• Subscribing to a Message in JMS
• Calling Sequence
• Admin Tasks for the JMS Service
• Create a Connection Factory
• Create a JMS Server
• Target to Server
• Create a Destination - Queue
• Create a Destination - Topic

WebLogic Server Clustering

• WebLogic Cluster Architecture
• Why Cluster?
• Benefits of Clustering
• What Services are Clustered?
• Other Clustered Services
• Deploying a Clustered Pool
• JDBC Multipools
• Multipools
• Vertical Scaling
• Horizontal Scaling
• Points of Failure
• Single Machine
• Separate HTTP Server
• Separate Database Server
• Separating the J2EE Containers
• Algorithms used for load balancing
• HTTP Load Balancing
• HTTP Session State
• HTTP Session In-Memory Replication
• EJB Clustering
• Affinity
• Specifying Affinity Type
• EJB Clustering
• Concepts
• Basic Cluster
• Multi-tier Proxy
• Server Communication in a Cluster
• One-to-Many using IP Multicast
• Peer-to-Peer Communication Using IP Sockets
• Server and Cluster-Wide JNDI Service
• Load Balance of Clustered Services
• Network Constraints on a Cluster
• Requirements on the servers in a Cluster
• Administration Server Failure
• Create a Cluster from the admin console
• Multicast Address
• Add a Server to a Cluster
• Deploying an Application to a Cluster
• Monitor a Cluster

Performance Tuning

• Consider
• Benchmarking
• Hardware
• Database
• Operating System Tuning
• JVM Tuning
• JRockit VM
• Java Compiler
• Network Tuning
• WebLogic Server Tuning
• Monitor The Domain
• WebLogic Server Cluster
• Thread Pool Sizes
• Pool Size for Stateless Session EJB
• Caching Size for Stateful Session EJB
• Performance Pack
• Application Tuning
• JDBC Application Tuning
• Transaction Isolation
• Session Persistence
• Minimize Sessions
• Set up Session Management
• Performance Analysis Tools

The Node Manager

• The Node Manager
• Node Manager Architecture & Functionality
• Setting Up The Node Manager
• Configuring The Hosts File
• Configuring SSL
• Configuring A Machine
• Startup Argument Configuration
• Remote Start Options
• Configuring Monitoring, Shutdown and Restart
• Health Monitoring Options
• Monitoring/ Shutdown / Restart Options
• Starting The Node Manager
• Starting And Stopping Using NM
• Starting / Stopping a Domain or Cluster
• Node Manager Logging

Web Services: An Overview

• What are Web Services?
• Why Do We Need Web Services?
• Problems with Conventional Distributed Systems
• Solution
• Web Services Benefits
• Web Services Supporting Architecture Standards
• The Functions and Information Flow
• The Role of SOAP
• What is SOAP Anyway?
• SOAP HTTP Request & Response Examples
• SOAP Fault
• WSDL Web Service Description Language
• Discover the Service from UDDI
• Data in the UDDI Registry
• Business Registration
• Registry API
• UDDI and SOAP
• Put Them Together
• J2EE vs. Web Services
• Web Service Developer s Tasks
• Web Service Components in WebLogic
• Two styles of Web Services
• Security of Web Services
• Assembling a WebLogic Web Service
• Invoking WebLogic Web Services
• Administering WebLogic Web Services