Oracle WebLogic Server 11g & 12c Administration Basics

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Course Description

By the end of this Oracle WebLogic Server 11g & 12c Administration Basics training course students will have good, hands-on familiarity with the basic configuration and use of WebLogic Server. Students will understand and be able to work with: Domains, WebLogic Server Instances, Clusters, Data-Sources, JMS Servers, Deployment of Applications and Security.
 
The highly interactive workshop day will enable students to leave the course with the experience and confidence to begin working on live projects within the enterprise. Students will also be able to begin to provide high availability, scalability and resilience to failures within a WebLogic environment in order to support enterprise-level Java applications and web services.

Course Outline

Day 1
 
1. WLS Terms & Architecture Overview

• Java EE Architecture
• Application & Web Servers
• Web Services
• JVM
• WLS Domains
• WLS Server Instances
• WLS Admin and Managed Servers
• WLS Clusters

2. WebLogic Installation & Configuration

• Oracle WebLogic Server Installation
• Configuring Domains
• Domain Templates
• Administration Console & WLST

Day 2
 
2. WebLogic Installation & Configuration (cont.)

• Managed Servers
• Node Manager
• WLS Logs

3. Clusters

• Introduction to Clusters
• Cluster Architecture
• Server Communication in a Cluster
• Methods of configuration
• Configure & Manage Clusters
• Cluster Addressing

Day 3
 
3. Clusters (cont.)

• HTTP Session State Replication & Persistence
• Replication Groups 

4. Deployment Concepts

• Basic Deployment Techniques
• Production Deployment Options

5. JDBC

• Configuring Data Sources
• Connection Pools
• Data Source Maintenance

6. JMS

• Introduction to Message-Oriented Middleware Concepts
• Destinations - Queues and Topics
• Configure and Target JMS Servers
• JMS Modules
• Connection Factories

Day 4
 
6. JMS (cont.)

• JMS Stores
• JMS Monitoring and Maintenance

7. Security

• Securing WLS
• Authentication, Authorisation and Security Providers
• Security Realms
• Roles & Policies
• Protecting Web Apps
• Managing Security Data

8. Protecting WLS 

• SSL
• Keys and Certificates
• Protect against attacks
• Securing the Admin Console

9. Monitoring & Tuning Introduction

• Monitoring with Admin Console & Monitoring Dashboard
• Monitoring with WLST
• WLDF Overview
• Network Addressing
• JVM – common issues  

Day 5
 
10. Review & Practical Workshop

• Recap Middleware concepts & architecture and WLS key features
• Create fully functional domain to students own specification
• Address real world issues specific to students requirements.
• Realise issues arising from working with remote hosts

Learning Path

• There are a number of options of suitable follow-on courses, depending on your business needs. Please contact us for further details.

• Web Application Programming with Java EE 6 Weblogic 12C Eclipse

Ways to Attend

• Attend a public course, if there is one available. Please check our schedule, or register your interest in joining a course in your area.
• Private onsite Team training also available, please contact us to discuss. We can customise this course to suit your business requirements.