Performance Improvement Tips on clustered Weblogic

To make sure that the performance of the ATG application or any application, for that matter, on BEA Weblogic's clustered environment, the following have to be done:

1. Every object stored in the session should be serializable and
2. Use session.setAttribute() to force the replication between the servers.

More can be read at BEA's site.

Changing jsessionId to custom session id in BEA Weblogic portal

It's a good design to change the session id name in the portal to a specific name. It helps to identify the session of the portal and differentiate it from the other back office applications that are integrated.

How to change this in BEA weblogic?
1. Overwrite the weblogic.xml and rename the jsessionId to the custom name you want to give.

Simple to do with lot of benefits! Next time you see jsession id, you know what and where it has to be changed!

ATG Personalization with Siteminder on BEA Weblogic

Came across a situation where we were looking for ATG with Siteminder. The problem was that the personalization repository used was not in the control of ATG. We did find a work around. Prepared a J2EE application that would reside on BEA Weblogic. And integrated this with siteminder at one side and ATG at the other end. With this we could achieve the single sign on facility that was much needed for our client.