It would be too hard explaining all configuration details about tuning the performance on a WebSphere Portal Server (WPS) as these rely heavily on the chosen infrastructure. I will however provide a nice troubleshooting guide that allows you to track down the performance bottlenecks on your WebSphere Portal environment.

IBM WebSphere Portal software provides an enterprise SOA based solution to build core portal services that aggregate applications and content as role-based applications.

When starting with performance tuning, it is important to begin with a baseline, monitor the performance metrics to determine if any parameters should be changed and monitor the performance metrics again to determine the effectiveness of the change.

In short, you need to measure, measure… and then just measure once again.

What do you need to do in order to start performance tuning on WebSphere Portal? more…

IBM has recently released a new version of their application server platform: WebSphere Application Server 7.0.

The release of WAS 7.0 brings us new possibilities in developing JEE based applications. Besides the upgrade of the Java standards, there are also major platform improvements.

What technical enhancements can I expect from WAS 7.0?

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