Paolo Ramasso presentation at the Application Server Day 2009, discussing the latest innovations in Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle/Bea Weblogic platforms

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Oracle WebLogic Server & Oracle WebLogic Suite
Paolo Ramasso
Master Principal Sales Consultant Oracle Italy

3. Application Grid
with Oracle
Fusion Middleware

4. A New Approach: Application Grid
Grid computing at the middleware layer
Custom Packaged C/C++/
SOA Svc Legacy
App App COBOL
Application Grid
Flexible High Quality
Efficiency
Scaling of Service
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5. Elements of the Application Grid
Comprehensive, hot­pluggable, pre­integrated
Enterprise
Manager
WebLogic Tuxedo
Server WebLogic
Operations Control
Coherence
+
AD4J
JRockit
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6. JRockit Managing GC Latency
Traditional Java
120 JRockit Real Time
105
90
75
60
45
30
15
0
0 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 12000 14000 16000 18000
During Low Load: GC spikes
and occasional timeouts visible
120
105
90
75
60
45
30 JRRT Makes garbage collection deterministic.
15
0
Allowing for the guarantee of SLAs.
0 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 12000 14000 16000 18000
During High Load: GC pauses can
result in unacceptable response times

7. Oracle Weblogic
Server

8. WebLogic Server 10.3
• Hardened release of the WebLogic 10.x release cycle
• Recommended WLS 8.1 and WLS 9.2 upgrade path
• Upgrade to mature release, fully compliant with Oracle
requirements
• Foundation release of Fusion Middleware 11 R1
• Fusion Middleware 11 R1 will do small incremental
maintenance changes to core WebLogic Server

9. Architectural View: Domain
• What is it?
• a logically related group of WebLogic
Server instances that you manage
from a single set of configuration
artifacts.
• What’s in a domain?
• Servers
• Clusters of servers
• Rules:
• All WebLogic Server instances within
the same domain must be at the
same major and minor version.
• Servers within a domain can be at
different Maintenance Pack levels as config.xml
long as the Administration Server is
at the same Maintenance Pack Level
or higher than its Managed Servers.

10. Architectural View: Administration Server
• What is it?
• Central configuration controller for the entire Managed Servers
domain
• What else does it do?
• Hosts the Administration Console
• Enables you to start and stop servers from a Admin Server
central location
• Enables you to migrate servers and services within
the domain config.xml
• Enables you to deploy applications within the
domain
• Guidelines:
• There must be exactly one* Administration Server
in domain
• An Administration Server controls only one domain.
• For production use, we recommend not hosting
application logic or resources on the Administration
Server
Admin Console
*The Administration Server does not need to run at all times, but is required for making
configuration and deployment changes to a running domain.

11. Architectural View: Node Manager
• Utility/process running on a physical server
that enables you to start, stop, suspend, and
restart WebLogic Server instances remotely
• Must run on each physical server that hosts
WebLogic Server instances that you want to
control with Node Manager
• Not associated with a domain. Can start any
server instance that resides on the same
physical server.
• Optional, but required to start/stop servers
using the Administration Console
• Required for Whole Server Migration and for
some configurations of Automatic Service
Migration Admin Server
Managed Server
Node Manager

12. Architectural View: Big Picture

13. Lightweight WebLogic Server
• Lightweight installers
• “Core” WLS install option, add­ons (JDKs, etc) optional
• Reduce download and install time, installation footprint
• Optional service startup
• Start WebApp container without starting EJB, JMS, JCA
services
• Provide developer flexibility

14. Production Redeployment
Side by Side Deployment
• Multiple application versions can co­
exist
• New client requests are routed to active
version; Existing client
requests can finish up with existing
version
• Automatic Retirement Policy: Graceful,
Timeout
• Test application version before opening
up for business
• Rollback to previous application version
• Two versions of the application can be
active at any given point of time

15. Integration with Oracle RAC
Oracle RAC Support
Use WLS Multi­Data­Sources
• Fast failover upon node failure
• Load­balancing or Failover
algorithm
• Periodic health check of
connections

16. High­Value and Unique features
Best­of­Breed Messaging (JMS) Engine
• Unit of Order/Unit of Work
• Strict Ordering of Message processing
• Distributed Destinations
• Highly Available JMS Destinations across a Cluster
• Store­and­Forward (SAF)/Client SAF
• Asynchronous Reliable Messaging across WAN
• Integrated JTA (XA) Transaction Management

17. Self­Tuning and Work Managers
WebLogic's Self­Tuning Thread Pool
Network Socket Handlers
(“Muxers”)
Self Tuning • Active
Thread Pool • Standby
• Stuck
• Hogging
Request Queue
Asynchronously dispatched work 1. Monitor rate of
from WebLogic kernel, subsystem request processing
or application
2. Adjust thread pool
size accordingly

18. Self­Tuning and Work Managers
Configurable Work Managers
• Every application has its own Work Manager
• based on the 'global' 'fair­share' work manager by default
• Can explicitly configure a new Work Manager
• apply to one or more specific applications and even individual resources
• Each work manager can have a mix of the following
configuration elements....
REQUEST CLASS ELEMENT CONSTRAINT ELEMENT TRIGGER ELEMENT
• Fair Share (default) • Minimum Threads (active) • Shut­down Trigger
• Response Time (goal) • Maximum Threads
• Context based (per • Capacity (threshold for
user/group) rejection)

19. Clustering and High Availability
Transparent Load Balancing and Failover
HTTP, EJB, JNDI and JMS clients
• HTTP requires Hardware Load Balancer or Web Server Proxy
• EJB/JNDI/JMS client 'stubs' are automatically cluster aware

20. Quality of Service
Meet the Most Demanding Requirements for “RASP”
• Reliability
• Proven quality in enterprise environments – “it just works”
• Transactional integrity, reliable messaging, Oracle RAC
• Availability
• Maintain app/service availability to end users
• Tolerate planned and unplanned events
• Scalability
• Expand and add system resources as required
• Millions of users and thousands of systems
• Performance
• Aggregate throughput of apps/services
• Low, predictable latency

21. Oracle Coherence
Distributed Data
Grid

22. Oracle Coherence Data Grid
Distributed in Memory Data Management
Enterprise Real Time Web
Applications Clients Services
• Provides a reliable data tier
Data Services
with a single, consistent view of
data
Oracle Coherence • Enables dynamic data
Data Grid
partitioning including fault
tolerance and load balancing
• Ensures that data capacity
scales with processing
Databases Mainframes Web Services capacity

23. The Coherence Approach…
• Traditional scale­out approaches limit
• Scalability, Availability, Reliability and Performance
• In Coherence…
• Servers share responsibilities (health, services, data…)
• No SPoB
• No SPoF
• Massively scalable by design
• Logically servers form a “mesh”
• No Masters / Slaves etc.
• Members work together as a team

24. Coherence*Web: Session State
Management
Web Application
Coherence
Web
Java EE or Servlet Application
Container State
Router
Web Application
Coherence
Web Web
Load
Java EE or Servlet Application
Tier Balanced Container State
Clustered Oracle, WebLogic,
WebSphere, JBoss, Tomcat
In Memory Coherence Data
Grid for Session State

25. Oracle Weblogic
Operation Control

26. WebLogic Operations Control
Centralized Governance and Control
Define
services and
operational
policies,
rules, & Deploy &
SLAs manage apps
& services in
resource
Manually or pools
auto­adjust
resource Actively
allocations monitor all
across apps deployments
against
policy

27. EM Diagnostic Pack

28. Competitive Advantage
in­depth Application view
Diagnose & Root Cause
Monitor The Platform 24X7
Memory Analysis
AD4J Console
DB Activity JVM Activity Diagnose & Memory Leak
Monitoring Monitoring Root Cause Analysis
AD4J
AD4J Console AD4J Console Repository
Java Classes JSPs
NOC App Support & QA DEV

29. Oracle JRockit Mission Control

30. WebLogic Suite | Reducing Lifecycle Costs
Deployment and Configuration Monitoring and
• WLST Diagnostics
• Enterprise Manager Configuration Packs • WebLogic Diagnostic
Developer Productivity Framework
• Side­by­side deployment
• FastSwap
• Application testing
• Split developer directory
• Componentized installer • Enterprise Manager
Diagnostics Pack
• Support for Spring
• JRockit Mission Control
WebLogic
Server
Troubleshooting
and Tuning
• WebLogic Diagnostic
Framework
• Enterprise Manger
Capacity Diagnostics Packs
Management, • JRockit Mission
Disaster Recovery Control
• Server / service migration • Policy­driven
Ongoing Administration
overload protection
• MAN, WAN session replication • Enterprise Manager Provisioning Pack
• Policy­driven resource management • Multi­domain, multi­version management
• Future: appliance builders