Chapter 14: Production Environment Best Practices

Overview

In this chapter, we will discuss strategies and best practices for deploying WebLogic Server applications in a production environment. Our discussion will focus on three strategies:

Deployment.    Determining the clustering approach, planning the production site configuration, and choosing the number and types of server machines.

Global traffic management.    Utilizing local and global load balancers.

Production security.     Securing your production environment and production WebLogic Server applications.

Designing, configuring, and running production systems represent complex topics, ones far too broad for us to cover in a single chapter. Unfortunately, it is difficult to refer you to other sources because there just aren t that many books written on the topic. Given the limited space available here, we have chosen these three areas of focus because these are the ones that customers frequently ask us about. We hope that this information proves useful to you in making these types of decisions.