June 2013
Intermediate to advanced
284 pages
5h 50m
English
The WebLogic cluster itself does not distribute the incoming HTTP requests across the Managed Servers, so the architecture design should foresee a load balance mechanism.
WebLogic can use either an external load balancer appliance/hardware such as the BIG-IP F5 (http://www.f5.com/products/big-ip), a Web Server such as the Apache HTTP Server configured with the WebLogic Web Server plug-in, or the embedded WebLogic HttpClusterServlet configuration.
Load balancing options:
HttpClusterServlet configurationFor production environments, it is recommended to use a mixed architecture that includes an external load balancer ...