Oracle WebLogic Server 11g Administration Handbook

Work Manager Components

You can use two basic components, request classes and constraints, to define and use in a Work Manager. The following sections explain the two components.

Request Classes

A request class helps to determine the priority the server should assign a specific request. You use request classes to specify a higher priority to important components of the application's workload. You assign the same request class to similar applications that have the same performance and availability requirements. A request class isn't something that categorizes requests into rigid priority classes, however. A request class is merely a guideline that the server will try to use in determining how it assigns priorities to various requests, but there's ...