After completing this course, the student should 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

• J2EE and WebLogic Server architecture
• WebLogic Clustering
• WebLogic Application Deployment
• WebLogic Resources and Services Configuration and Monitoring
• Security and Transaction Management
• WebLogic Performance Tuning

1. J2EE and WebLogic Server
• N-tier architecture
• J2EE architecture
• WebLogic Server terminologies
• WebLogic Server architecture
2. WebLogic Server Administration Basics
• Overview
• Role of an administrator
• JMX-based and SNMP-based administration
• Configuration
• Monitoring and logging
• Deployments
• Services
• Transaction
• Security
• Tuning
3. Configure and Monitor Domains, Servers and Machines
• Overview
• Configure domain, domain logging and applications
• Configure and monitor servers
• Create a machine in a domain
4. 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
5. 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
6. 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
7. JNDI
• JNDI basics
• JNDI context
• Object lookup using JNDI
• JNDI in datasource, JMS, and EJB deployment
• Monitoring JNDI tree
8. WebLogic Server Transaction Management
• Overview
• WebLogic Server transaction support
• Configure WebLogic transactions
• Monitor and logging transactions
9. Create, Configure and Monitor JDBC Services
• Overview
• JDBC drivers
• JDBC connection and transaction
• JDBC connection pools
• JDBC datasources
10. Create, Configure and Monitor JMS Services
• Overview
• MOM and JMS
• JMS domains
• JMS connection factories
• JMS servers, JMS queues, JMS topics
11. WebLogic Server Clustering
• Overview
• How clusters work
• Cluster configuration planning
• Cluster configuration tasks
• Cluster administration
12. WebLogic Server Performance Tuning
• Overview
• JVM tuning
• Operating system tuning
• WebLogic server tuning
• WebLogic client tuning
• Performance analysis tools
13. The Node Manager
• Overview
• Node Manager Architecture
• Node Manager Functionality
• Setting up the Node Manager
• Node Manager Logging
14. 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