What you don’t want is the typical ‘recipe book’ full of screenshots. Click here. Click there. Do this. Do that. That’s WebLogic by numbers.

What you really want are the things you won’t find in the manual, like recommendations, discussions, best practices, deployable projects, webcast videos and directions on when to use a feature – and when not to. With all this and more, this book is the perfect complement to official courses and manuals.

In short, this gem of a book is almost as good as attending one of Frank’s renowned workshops.

This new book is an anthology of best practice in administrating WebLogic, large-scale deployments, performance-tuning biggest mistakes, perfomance tuning tools, the merged JVM, node manager, using JMX with your own applications, stuck threads, JDBC myths, effectively detecting memory leaks, Java EE examples (deployments and NetBeans projects), Oracle Fusion Middleware (Service Bus, SOA Suite etc.) and WebLogic in the Cloud without the hype.

The significantly improved and expanded second edition is based on WebLogic 12.1.2 and contains more than 130 additional pages, half a dozen new webcasts and more than 16 new or rewritten recipes.




Additional Content of Second Edition:

OUI installer, OPatch, Certification, Requirements and Compatibility, per Domain Node Manager, Server Templates, Cluster Targeted JMS, Dynamic Clustering, Oracle Java Cloud Service.






Contents of First Edition:


A la Carte-
Why WebLogic 12c? -
JDK / JVM -
Oracle JDK 7 -
Installation -
Domains and Directories -
Sizing and Defining Domains -
Users and Groups -
Start Scripts -
Startup Mode: Development or Production? -
WebLogic Features in Different Versions -
JMX - Why it matters -
WebLogic Scripting Tool (WLST) -
JMX Shell j4psh-
JConsole -
WebLogic 12c RESTful Management-
RESTful Management with Jolokia-
RESTful URLs for Jolokia Grab Bag -
Configuration Management -
boot.properties and SerializedSystemIni.dat -
Encrypting and Hacking Passwords -
Connection Filter and Logging -
Stuck Threads -
Deployment -
Redeployment Loop Testing -
Node Manager Basics-
Node Manager Best Practices-
JDBC Pinned to Thread -
JDBC or File Persistent Stores -
JMS Distributed Destinations -
JMS Quotas Increase Performance-
Enable Distributed Transactions-
Emulated 2-PC? Logging Last Resource! -
Load Balancing and Web Servers -
Content Distribution Networks -
Open Source HAProxy Load Balancer -
WebLogic Cluster -
Service and Whole-Server Migration -
JTA Service-
Overload Protection-
Install and Configure NetBeans -
Simple JMX: MBeans with Spring -
MXBeans with Java EE -
Simple Web Service -
Stateless Session Bean in Two Minutes -
EJB Timer -