Database Reference
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use along with Oracle SOA Suite are listed as follows. Oracle provides separate
proxy plugins for these web server(s).
• Apache HTTP Server
• Microsoft
Internet Information Server
(
IIS
)
• Oracle HTTP Server
• Oracle WebLogic Web Server
• Oracle iPlanet Web Server
WebLogic
application
server(s)
and
Oracle
SOA
Suite
server(s) - clustering for scalability and availability
The web server proxy plugin will provide load balancing and failover options for SOA
Suite and WebLogic clusters.
The web server proxy plugin maintains the SOA Suite or WebLogic server instance
details and forwards the request to those instances based on the load balancing al-
gorithm.Usually,theroundrobinorleastconnectionsloadbalancingisusedformost
of the infrastructure. The proxy plugin locates and routes the client request to the
failover application server instance in case the primary instance failed for some reas-
on. The Apache plugin is available as shared object (
.so
) for Linux platforms. For
routing the traffic from web server to SOA Suite, configure the
httpd.conf
file and
include the WebLogic host name and port information.
The other option is to use a layer 4 hardware load balancer for routing the traffic from
web server to SOA Suite. For some infrastructure, hardware load balancing may be
recommended.
You can create SOA Suite clusters during the install process and ensure that all
nodes are processing requests at the same time to avoid a single point of failure.
To install the Apache proxy plugin for WebLogic 10.3.6, you should download
the Apache proxy plugin as a separate ZIP file. It is available at
ht-
tp://edelivery.oracle.com
.
Extract the plugin files in your Apache server and configure
httpd.conf
.
