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

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

• History of J2EE
• Application Server technology
• Servlet Overview
• JSP Overview
• EJB Overview
• The BEA family of Products

• The JVM and WebLogic
• JRockit and Sun JDK
• WebLogic Domain Architecture
• Admin Server/Managed Servers
• Domain directory structure
• Creating Domains using the Configuration Wizard
• Starting WebLogic
• The WebLogic Console
• Locking and Activating changes
• Shutting Down Weblogic
• config.xml
• Automatic boot of WebLogic
• Admin Server backup

• WLST overview
• WLST commands and usage

• Configuring WebLogic Server Logs
• Messages and Message Attributes
• Log severity
• Log filtering
• Monitoring servers
• Monitoring applications
• File stores

• Web Server overview
• Configuring The WebLogic web server
• Virtual Hosts
• Access log
• Web Server security controls
• The Web Server plug-in

• Overview of Web Applications
• WARs, JARs and EARs
• WAR file structure
• WAR deployment descriptors
• JAR file structure
• JAR deployment descriptors
• EAR file structure
• EAR deployment descriptors
• Assembling archives
• URLs of Web Applications
• Virtual Directories

• Deploying overview
• Deployment methods
• Auto deployment and production mode
• Deploying Through The Console
• Deploying Through The Command Line
• Deploying via wldeploy
• Editing Deployment Descriptors through the Admin Console
• Testing applications
• Updating applications
• Application distribution
• Startup and shutdown classes

• JDBC overview
• JDBC driver types and architectures
• Connection pooling and data sources
• Creating a JDBC datasource in WebLogic
• Configuring connection pools
• Monitoring data sources and connection pools
• Multipools

• JMS Overview
• MOM
• PubSub vs. PTP
• JMS Architecture
• Transactions and Messaging
• Creating and configuring a WebLogic JMS server
• Creating and configuring a WebLogic Connection Factory
• Creating and configuring a JMS destination
• Thresholds and Quotas
• Distributed topics and queues
• Persisted messaging
• JMS file and JDBC stores
• Store and Forward (SAF) service
• Monitoring JMS
• JMS crash recovery
• Migrating JMS servers
• JMS Bridging
• Configuring JMS bridging

• Node manager overview
• Starting WebLogic remotely
• Starting and configuring the node manager
• Configuring machines
• Starting WebLogic using the node manager

• Security overview
• J2EE Security
• LDAP concepts
• WebLogic and Security Realms
• Deployment descriptors and J2ee security
• Mapping roles and users in J2EE
• Using WebLogic's embedded LDAP
• Creating users, groups and roles in the embedded LDAP server
• User lockout
• Using third party LDAP servers
• WebLogic Security Policies
• Migrating Security
• SSL overview
• Configuring SSL
• Certificates and keytool
• DoS Attacks and prevention
• Connection filtering
• Connection starvation and buffer overflowing

• Clustering overview
• Cluster architectures
• Vertical and horizontal scaling
• Cluster-wide JNDI tree
• Cluster requirements
• Creating and configuring a cluster
• Starting a cluster
• Deploying applications to a cluster
• The WLS plugin and clustering
• The HttpClusterServlet
• Clustered HTTP Session State
• In-memory replication
• JDBC replication
• Configuring replication
• Clustering JMS
• Clustering JDBC

• Performance tuning overview
• Testing and benchmarks
• CPU Usage
• Memory management and garbage collection
• JRockit Management console
• Native vs. Java socket readers
• Thread pools in WebLogic
• Execute Threads
• Backlog buffering
• Session persistence strategies
• Pre-compiling JSPs
• Tuning EJBs
• Network channels

• JNDI overview
• JNDI and WebLogic resources
• Viewing the JNDI tree and debugging

• Transaction overview
• 2PC
• The JTA
• Monitoring Transactions
• Transaction Logs
• Recovering transactions
• Transaction migration

• JMX overview
• MBeans concepts
• MBean communication
• Using WLST and MBeans
• SNMP overview
• The WLS SNMP agent
• Setting up SNMP traps
• Configuring SNMP agents
• snmpwalk
• snmptrap