Course Introduction
Course Objectives
Course Overview
Using the Workbook
Suggested References

Introduction to WebLogic 10
What is Java?
What is J2EE?
The J2EE Architecture
Servlets and JSPs
Enterprise JavaBeans
Application Server
Web Container
EJB Container
BEA WebLogic Platform

WebLogic Installation and Testing
System Configuration
Installation Files
Installation
Silent Installation
WebLogic Directory Structure
WebLogic Directory Structure (cont'd)
Building a Domain
Building a Domain (Custom mode)
WebLogic Server types
config.xml.booted
Domain File Structure
config.xml
startweblogic.cmd
Testing your Installation
Configuring Startup
Running the WebLogic Console
Shutting down WebLogic

Weblogic Console Administration
Console Overview
Console
Centralized Administration
Monitoring Weblogic Servers
Monitoring Weblogic Servers (cont'd)
Configuring a New Machine
Configuring a new Server
Configuring Domain Properties
Building a Managed Server
Weblogic Node Manager
Monitoring Domain Logging

JNDI with Weblogic
What is JNDI?
JNDI Service Providers
JNDI and Weblogic
Using JNDI
JNDI Client
JNDI Registration
Monitoring JNDI
Monitoring JNDI using WLST

WebLogic Deployments
Deployments Overview
EJB Jar Files
Deployment Descriptors
Ant
War and Ear files
War file structure
Web Application Context
Deployment Process Overview
Deployment techniques
Expanded Directory Deployment
Console Deployment
weblogic.Deployer
WLST Deployment
Startup and Shutdown Classes
Application Installation Directory
Deployment Plans
Creating a Deployment Plan
Reading a Deployment Plan
Application Versioning
Updating applications in a Production Env.

Configuring JDBC
JDBC Architecture
JDBC Drivers
JDBC Driver Install
DataSource Connection Properties
Configuring Connection Pools
Monitoring Pool Performance
Tuning Pool Performance
JDBC Multi DataSources

Configuring JMS
Asynchronous Messaging
Messages
Queue
Topic
Weblogic JMS
JMS Servers
JMS Modules
Building JMS System Modules
Building JMS Module Resources
Building JMS Application Modules
Durable Subscribers
JMS File Stores
JMS JDBC Stores
Monitoring JMS Servers
Connecting External JMS Providers

WebLogic HTTP Server
Overview
Configuring HTTP
Web-server Proxy
WebLogic Plug-in
IIS and WebLogic
Apache and WebLogic
Virtual Hosts
Weblogic Server HTTP Log Files

WebLogic Security
WebLogic Security Design
Weblogic Security Providers
Authorization
Authentication-Users
Authentication-Groups
Authentication Roles
Integration with legacy providers
Security Administration Tasks
Handling User Lockouts
Securing a Web Application Hands-on
Securing a Web Application Hands-On (cont'd)
Defining your own realm
Configuring Providers
SSL
Custom Certificates

Configuring WebLogic Clusters
Clustering Servers
Cluster Layout
Web Application Tiers
Recommended Basic Architecture
Recommended Multi-Tier Cluster
Cluster Design
Implementing a Cluster
Cluster Communication
Configuring the Cluster
Load Balancing
Clustered Servers
MultiCast Communication
Administration Server Failure
Configuring Replication Groups
Tuning Weblogic Clusters
Web Application Fail-over

Node Manager
What is Node Manager?
Node Manager Details
Configuring Node Manager
Configuring Node Manager (Cont'd)
Node Manager Startup
Node Manager Domain Management
Node Manager Services
Node Manager Health Monitoring
Node Manager Logging

Weblogic Performance Tuning
Introduction
Bottleneck Location
CPU Utilization
Memory Utilization
Monitoring the JVM
Using Verbose GC
JRockit
Database bottlenecks
Network bottleneck
Monitoring Threads
Weblogic Thread Pools
Configuring Reader Threads
Performance Tuning Summary

WebLogic Scripting Tool
Introduction
Jython Syntax
Jython Conditionals
Jython Loops
Sample WLST
Recording User Interactions in WLST
Weblogic Management Objects
Redirecting WLST Output to a File
MBeans
WebLogic Server MBean Data Model
MBean Lifecycle
Monitoring the invocations of a JSP
Deploying in WLST