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Chapter 4. Tuning Oracle SOA Suite
11g for Optimum Performance
As an Oracle SOA Suite 11g administrator, when managing highly visible and
mission critical business process application of your enterprise, one of the most
important ongoing activities that you will engage in is performance tuning the in-
frastructure. Considerations like scalability, performance, and reliability of the un-
derlying infrastructure are paramount. Pre-configured default settings are not op-
timal or may require tuning for performance and production environments, and
this is where optimization is required to extract the best performance out of your
environment.
In this chapter, you will learn details of specific areas that you need to focus on to
improve your infrastructure performance. The key to optimization is to understand
why you require optimizing in the first place, and knowing the ramifications of the
changes you are making.
Many recommendations and suggested settings throughout
this chapter have resulted in considerable performance im-
provements in real production environments, but may not be
applicable for all types of implementations as hardware sizing,
operating system choice, code design patterns, and other
factors all contribute to choosing optimal settings. Please exer-
cise caution when making any change.
Performance tuning is challenging as often it is difficult to know where to begin.
Also equally important is to understand the interdependencies that various tuning
configurations may have, so as to avoid undesirable runtime behavior. In order
to maximize performance, you will need to understand, monitor, analyze, and
tune all of the components that make up your infrastructure. There are a lot of
