Oracle Training : Oracle Application Server 10g Administration

This course utilizes a combination of instructor-led lectures and interactive workshops to demonstrate the administrative tasks for maintaining the Oracle Application Server environment. This seminar will focus on: Oracle components, basic architecture, deployment considerations, migration strategies, browser-based administration, scripting, performance and tuning issues, workload management, failover strategies, clustering, defining JMS servers, Web services integration, session management concerns, JDBC and DataSources, ESB concepts, metrics and monitoring strategies.

Each of the topics will be reinforced through a series of hands-on exercises and case studies. Oracle Training Prerequisites

Each student should have a basic understanding of Oracle architecture and eCommerce environment. Oracle Training Audience

System administrators, network professionals and advanced web developers that will be maintaining and monitoring the Oracle Application Server environment.

Objectives

Upon conclusion participants will have acquired these skills:

Install and configure Oracle Application Server 10g
Discuss the major J2EE components (JMS, JTA, JNDI, etc)
Illustrate the performance monitoring tools available
Demonstrate the role of J2EE security and the implementation of LDAP architecture.
Defining affinity and failover processing and strategies
Understand the session management considerations
Demonstrate implementation and configuration of JCA resource adapters
Define the configuration of JDBC connection pools
Understand the role of JMS and configuration of a JMS Server
Illustrate the federated Oracle namespace environment
Understand the class loading policy
Depict the integration of Web services with web applications
Discuss horizontal and vertical scaling and clustering
Understand the High availability manager and failover concepts
Illustrate the role of the Enterprise Manager
Depict the use of the Enterprise Service Bus

Class Format

Lecture and Lab

Oracle Training Course duration

5 Days

Oracle Training Course outline

Architecture Overview
- Client tier
- Web tier
- App Server
- Database
Component Overview
- Portal
- Discoverer
- Forms server
- Single Sign-On
- Metadata repository
- Oracle Management Server (OMS)
Administration
- Admin Console
- Command line interface
- Enterprise Manager

Oracle 10g Infrastructure

Infrastructure
- iasdb schema
- Repository log tables
- Log reports
- BAM
Starting and Stopping
Single Sign-on

Oracle HTTP Server (OHS)

Management
HTTP Server modules
Configuring OHS
Virtual hosting
Dynamic content
Monitoring with Enterprise Manager
- Usage metrics
- Response and load metrics
- Module metrics

Web Cache Administration

Caching concepts
- Advantages/disadvantages
- Different types
Web cache
Load balancing
Invalidation
Managing cache
- Operations
- Monitoring
- Logging and diagnostics
- Port definition
- Rules and rule association
Using webcachectl utility

J2EE Basics

J2EE Introduction
- Applets
- Client apps
- Servlets
- JSPs
- Enterprise JavaBeans
Role of J2EE Containers
Deployment with WAR, JAR and EARs
J2EE Components
- JDBC
- JNDI
- JMS
- JTA
- JAXP
- JAXM
- JAAS
- JAX-RPC
- RMI
Oracle Containers
Deployment via Enterprise Manager

Oracle Containers for J2EE

Managing OC4J
Using opmnctl utility
Management using Enterprise Manager
- OC4J instance
- Creating a container
- Deleting a container
- Starting a container
OC4J Listeners

Database Connections and TopLink

Role of persistence
JDBC
- Thin driver
- OCI Driver
- Server-side driver
- Dynamic SQL
- Using SQLJ
Container vs. Bean-managed persistence
TopLink Mapping Workbench

High Availability

Defining unavailability
Single points of failure
- Web cache tier
- Midtier
- Infrastructure tier
- Database
Disaster recovery
OC4J High availability features
Transparent failover

Performance and Tuning

Monitoring setup
Monitoring and load balancing
- Using dmstool
- Using addrespy
Using Database instance
Web caching tuning
- Rules
- Monitoring
- HTTP Server and web cache
Load Balancing
- 10g monitoring
- Monitoring goals
- Using vmstat
- Report generation
- Exception reports

Security

Oracle Security model
Authorization and Authentication
Trusting relationships
Role of JAAS
LDAP integration
Security features
- Web Cache
- HTTP Server
- Containers
Identity Manager
- Internet Directory
- Delegated administrative services
- Single Sign-On

Web Services Overview

Service Oriented Architecture
- UDDI Registries
- Service Requestor
- Web Service
B2C vs B2B
Defining XML
SOAP
- Architecture
- Messages
WSDL Definition
Publishing

Enterprise Service Bus

Role of an ESB
Illustrate message oriented, event driven and service oriented processes
Optimize delivery of information and services
Discuss deployed components
- Routing rules
- Business rules
- Transformation
- Mediation
- Adapters
Interoperability with messaging platforms
- JMS
- MQSeries
- Tibco