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Creating Partitions
Creating Partitions
By enabling and disabling the various Partition containers and services, and
configuring the Partition's environment, you can “right-size” the Partition to its specific
task. Typical use cases for a Partition include:
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Providing a complete isolated J2EE server platform for an application with all
relevant J2EE container and services enabled.
Providing a platform for a component of a distributed application such as its Web
Tier with just the Web Container and Session Service enabled.
Providing a central service such as a platform for the BES UDDI server with just its
Web Container enabled.
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Providing a diagnostic platform for an application such as running under Optimizeit.
Avoiding monolithic J2EE server Partitions hosting many applications also allows you
to fine tune the Java environment the application needs. The version and type of JDK
together with such configuration as heap space available ensures a satisfactory
environment in which to run, while not over-allocating resources. Limits on pooled
resources such as threads and connections may similarly be configured for optimal
total performance. Partitions also have their own individual security settings for
authentication mechanisms, authorization tables, and so on. A user who has authority
to access all resources in a development Partition may be granted much more limited
authority in a production Partition.
Partitions are created as Managed Objects in a “configuration” from templates provided
in the Borland Management Console. Typically the Partition disk footprint is created in:
/var/domains//configurations//
You can specify another location for the Partition and add a pre-existing Partition to a
configuration. The Management Console provides a rich configuration experience for a
Partition and is discussed in the Management Console User's Guide. Most
configuration data for the Partition and its services is captured in its partition XML
reference file. See Chapter 30, “Partition XML reference.”
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