• Product overview
    • Partitioning facility
    • ObjectGrid
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  • Installing and customizing the product
    • Hardware and software requirements
    • Distributed operating systems
      • Installation scenarios
      • Installing in a WebSphere Application Server environment
      • Installing in other server environments
      • Installing the product
      • Installing silently
      • Installation parameters
      • Using the centralized installation manager repository tool to add products
      • Using the Update Installer to install maintenance packages
        • Updating the middleware agent
      • Creating and installing customized packages
        • Build definition file
        • Creating and installing a CIP
          • Creating a build definition file and generating a CIP
          • Installing a CIP
            • Silently installing a CIP
            • Installing a CIP to apply maintenance to an existing product installation
          • Uninstalling CIP updates from an existing product installation
        • Creating and installing an IIP
          • Creating a build definition file and generating an IIP
          • Installing an IIP
            • Silently installing an IIP
          • Modifying an existing build definition file for an IIP
      • Creating and augmenting profiles
        • Using the graphical user interface to create profiles
          • Creating profiles for multiple products
          • Creating profiles for use with other IBM products
        • Using the graphical user interface to augment profiles
          • Augmenting profiles with multiple product augment templates
        • Using the manageprofiles command to create profiles
        • Using the manageprofiles command to augment and unaugment profiles
        • Non-root profile creation and augmentation
        • First steps console
      • Uninstalling the product
    • z/OS
      • Installing the Application Server Toolkit Version 6.1.1 and the Profile Management tool for z/OS
      • Augmenting z/OS profiles
      • Using the Profile Management Tool for z/OS to customize the deployment manager profile
      • Using the Profile Management Tool for z/OS to customize a managed application server profile
      • Uploading a customized job
  • Migrating the product
    • Migrating product configurations
      • Using the Migration wizard
      • XDPreUpgrade command
      • XDUpgrade command
    • Migrating to a Version 6.1 deployment manager
    • Migrating to a Version 6.1 node
    • Where migration tasks are performed
  • ObjectGrid resources
    • Supporting high volumes of transaction activity with the partitioning facility (WPF)
      • Partitions
        • Partition life cycle
        • Partition creation
        • IIOP routing to a partition
      • A partitioned stateless session bean
      • Partitioned J2EE application
      • A partitioned HTTP application
      • Samples overview
        • Partitioning facility examples
      • The partitioning facility
        • Partitioning objective and benefits
        • J2EE partitioning capabilities
          • EJB workload partitioning
            • Typical J2EE enterprise bean clustered workload processing
            • Partitioning facility EJB workload management
            • Capabilities of an EJB workload enabled by the partitioning facility
          • HTTP partitioning
            • The role of the ODR
            • Extracting partition names from HTTP requests
          • Database partitioning
      • z/OS platform considerations
        • z/OS restrictions in WPF
          • WPF programming pattern in z/OS
      • Partitioning facility programming
        • Partitioned EJB overview
          • Partitioned stateless session bean
          • Partition routable session bean
          • Interface for a partitioned stateless session bean
          • Partitioning facility requirements
          • Partitioning facility restrictions
        • Partition alias
          • Compatibility with WebSphere Extended Deployment Version 5.1
          • Partition grouping overview
          • Partition alias programming
          • Partition alias runtime
          • Usage scenario for a partition alias
          • Partition grouping programming
        • Developing partitioning facility applications with WSAD Version 5.1
          • Using WSAD 5.1 with a new partitioned application
            • Creating a partition stateless session bean
            • Adding sample partitions
              • Update the getPartitions method
              • Update the isPartitionAlive method
              • Importing the WPFKeyBasedPartitionSample sample application
        • Partitioning facility framework programming model
          • PartitionDefinition
          • PartitionScope
          • PartitionManager
          • PartitionHandlerLocal
          • Threading issues for the PSSB callback methods
          • Writing an application client
          • Modifying the enterprise bean stubs
        • Data partitioning patterns
          • Variable partition set
          • Fixed partition set
          • Singleton pattern
          • Hash based partitioning
          • Slave multiple reader and Master single writer pattern
          • Partition specific CMP data
            • Option A CMPs
            • Efficiently removing an option A CMP instance
          • CMP datasource overview
          • Proxy DataSource programming model
          • API
          • Developing applications using proxy datasource support in WSAD
            • Create ProxyDSAccountSample project
            • Create entity EJBs Account and AccountOwner
            • Create PRSB AccountTransaction
            • Create PSSB AccountPartitionBean
            • Set the classpath
            • Set the connection factory for the CMP EJBs
            • Configure the resource references for the session bean
          • Configure Proxy DataSource in WebSphere eXtreme Scale
            • Configure your database
              • Create J2EE Connector architecture authentication alias
              • Create DB2 data sources
              • Create proxy datasource
          • Install D_ProxyDSAccountSample.ear application
          • Run the application client
        • Partitioning facility PMI client programming
        • HTTP partitions
          • Structure of an HTTP partitioning facility application
          • Specifying HTTP partitions in partitions.xml
          • A generic HttpPartitionBean packaging
          • Colocating the generic PSSB and servlets
          • The HttpPartitionFilter packaging
          • Loading servlets at startup
          • HTTP programming interfaces
            • The HttpPartitionManager
            • The HttpPartitionExpression
            • The notification interface
            • Other servlet API HttpPartitionManager methods
          • An example
          • The EJB API and extending the HttpPartitionBean
            • EJB-specific HttpPartitionManager methods
            • HttpPartitionBean details
          • Mixing programming interfaces and partitions.xml
      • Managing the partitioning facility environment
        • HA manager and partitioning facility
          • HA manager overview
          • HA managed policy applied to partitioning
          • Partitions in HA manager implementation
          • Policy Administration
        • Relation of a partition to an HA group
          • Partition scope
          • Too many policies
          • Too many partitions
          • Defining more than one coordinator
          • Partition activation reaction times
          • Memory usage
        • General cluster and WPF management considerations
          • Scalability considerations
          • Conservative partition design
          • Physical machines CPU and paging utilization
          • Application thread pools
          • Control node and application server in the cluster
          • Schedule the operating system to use shorter times
          • Mixing application types
          • SMP machines preferred in partitioned implementations
          • On demand LPAR resource advantages
          • Busy partitions
            • Move busy partitions to a less busy server
            • Move the less critical partitions to another server
            • LPAR expansion
        • Management script wpfadmin and usage
          • Management parameters
          • Retrieving statistics on partitioned applications
          • listActive
          • listActiveWithGroups
          • countActivePartitionsOnServers
          • countActiveGroupsOnServers
          • list
          • listGroups
          • coreGroupStatus
          • move
          • balance
          • disablePartition
          • enablePartition
          • addServerToCoreGroup
          • removeServerFromCoreGroup
          • enableWPFPMI
          • subscribeWPFPMI
          • setPartitionCount
          • setStatisticsRange
          • setEJBName
          • setStatisticsType
          • setStatisticsInterval
          • getTransactionCount
          • getResponseTime
          • getFailedTransactionCount
          • setTraceSpec
          • unsubscribeWPFPMI
          • disableWPFPMI
          • createPolicy
          • createMultiplePolicies
          • updatePolicy
          • deletePolicy
          • updateJMXTimeout
          • updateCoreGroupCoordinators
          • updateHamConfig
          • listPolicies
          • queryPolicy
          • resolvePolicyForGroup
        • Performance monitoring
          • Partitioning facility PMI enablement
            • Enabling partitioning facility PMI from the wpfadmin command
          • Partitioning facility PMI path
          • Partitioning facility PMI data aggregation
          • Partitioning facility PMI statistics subscription
            • Subscribe to partitioning facility PMI statistics using the wpfadmin command
          • The partitioning facility PMI statistics retrieval
          • Partitioning facility PMI statistics parameters
            • Application name and session EJB
            • Statistics type
            • Statistics range
            • Partition count
            • Statistics aggregation interval
            • WPF PMI aggregator policy
        • Scalability related configuration
          • Proxy datasource management
      • Problem resolutions
        • Client invocation problems
        • Proxy datasource problems
        • Workload routing problems
      • An example of the partitioning facility
        • Configuration quick start
          • Starting the deployment manager
          • Adding nodes to the deployment manager
        • Cluster configuration
        • Installing the sample application
          • Starting the cluster
        • Running operations for the partitioning facility
          • Verification process
          • Launching a client application
            • Troubleshooting launchclient
          • Balancing the partitions
          • Launching a client application
          • Adding a partition dynamically
          • Monitoring transaction performance statistics
            • Enabling performance monitoring
            • Managing policies example overview
        • Example summary
  • Reference
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