Participants should have a System Administrative background. Familiarity with installing and configuring software on a Windows platform is essential. Some knowledge of Java is helpful, but not necessary

The J2EE platform is Java’s answer to enterprise scalable applications. BEA Weblogic is one of the premiere Application Servers that implements the J2EE specification. Students will come away from class with the ability to build and configure complete Weblogic domains. The course will cover the details of administrating a J2EE server. This is a hands-on learning experience, with each student having their own Weblogic Server to learn with.

Install a Weblogic Server

Build a Weblogic Domain

Utilize many of the command-line administrative tools provided by Weblogic

Implement Database access with Weblogic Connection Pools

Describe JMS based messaging servers

Create and deploy a JMS Topic

Pass messages to and receive messages from a JMS Topic

Implement Weblogic security for deployed components

Effectively design a clustered installation

Monitor an existing Weblogic implementation for problems

Tune a Weblogic server for maximum performance

What is Java?	What is J2EE?
The J2EE Architecture	Servlets and JSPs
Enterprise Java Beans	Application Server
Web Container	EJB Container
BEA Weblogic Platform	J2EE Example Application

System Configuration	Installation Files
Installation	Silent Installation
WebLogic Directory Structure	WebLogic Directory Structure cont.
Building a Domain	WebLogic Server types
Domain File Structure	Configuration Files
startweblogic.cmd	Testing your Installation
Weblogic Scripting	WLST Operations
Configuring Startup	Running the WebLogic Console
Shutting down Weblogic

Console Overview	Configuring the Console
Centralized Administration	Monitoring Weblogic Servers
Change Center	Using the Change Center
Monitoring Weblogic Servers cont	Configuring a New Machine
Configuring a new Server	Configuring Domain Properties
Building a Managed Server	Weblogic Node Manager
Node Manager	Console Configuration
Remote Start Options	Starting Node Manager
Monitoring Domain Logging	Weblogic Server Memory
Weblogic Server Memory cont

Deployments Overview	EJB Jar Files
EJB Home Interface	EJB Remote Interface
EJB Implementation Class	Deployment Descriptors
web.xml	weblogic.xml
ejb-jar.xml	weblogic-ejb-jar.xml
weblogic-cmp-rdbms.xml	War and Ear files
War File Structure	Deployment techniques
Weblogic Deployment Plans	Distributing Applications
weblogic.Deployer	Console Deployment
Deployment Descriptor Editor	Ant

JDBC Architecture	JDBC Driver Install
Connection Pool	Configuring Connection Pools
Data Sources	Tx Data Sources
Monitoring Pool Performance

Asynchronous Messaging	Messages
Queue	Topic
JMS Connection Factory	JMS Servers
Configuration of JMS Destinations	Monitoring JMS Servers

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

Weblogic Security Design	Weblogic Security Providers
Authorization	Authentication-Users
Authentication-Groups	Authentication Roles
Integration with legacy providers	Security Administration Tasks
Handling User Lockouts

Clustering Servers	Cluster Layout
Cluster Design	Implementing a Cluster
Configuring the Cluster	Load Balancing
Clustered Servers	Cluster Communication
Server Migration	WAN and MAN failover
Administrative Server Failure	Configuring Replication Groups

What is Node Manager	Node Manager Details
Configuring Node Manager	Configuring Node Manager Cont.
Node Manager Startup	Node Manager Services
Node Manager Health Monitoring	Node Manager Domain Management
Node Manager Logging

Introduction	Bottleneck Location
CPU Utilization	Memory Utilization
Centralized Diagnostic Service	Event Capture
Monitoring the JVM	Server Self-Tuning
Overload Protection	Network Channels
Configuring Network Channels	Monitoring Threads
Stuck Threads	Configuring new Thread Queues