Detailed Course Outline
- Course introduction
- WebSphere Application Server systems and components
- Overview of performance concepts and tuning tasks
- Exercise: POD configuration
- Apache JMeter and load testing
- Exercise: Apache JMeter basics
- Exercise: DayTrader Benchmark installation
- Exercise: Using Apache JMeter to load test DayTrader
- WebSphere performance data and tools
- Exercise: Performance monitoring tools
- WebSphere performance tuning methods
- Introduction to the JVM
- Exercise: Exploring GC policies and monitoring JVM performance
- Tuning the JVM
- Exercise: Tuning the JVM
- Exercise: Troubleshooting JVM problems
- Tuning the connection pool
- Exercise: Tuning JDBC connection pools and enabling servlet caching
- WebSphere runtime performance tuning
- Application profiling and tuning
- Exercise: Application profiling with Java Health Center
- WebSphere clusters and scalability
- Exercise: Load testing an application server cluster
- Course summary