Oracle Application Server Portal Handbook

Performance Tuning

As systems become more and more complex, tuning those systems becomes exponentially more difficult. If your Java/Web-based/Oracle-driven application is performing poorly, where do you start looking? The database? The operating system? The network? The end user’s browser settings? The JVM settings on your server? The other applications running on the client’s machine? This list goes on and on.

Fortunately, Oracle provides a tool that, while not giving you the exact answer (does any diagnostic tool ever really do that?), gives administrators enough direction so that increasing the performance of their OracleAS Portal applications is made much easier. This tool is called the Oracle Enterprise Manager Application Server Control. ...