Accessing the Oracle Universal Connection Pool MBean using JConsole

Now I am just tranistioning to the Oracle Universal Connection Pool I found that it has a useful MBean known as "UniversalConnectionPoolMBean" which you can view/manipulate with "jconsole" using JDK 1.6. Here is a screen shot of jconsole attached to the JVM which is has a Universal Connection Pool running within it. Once attached to the JVM access it as follows.

1. Click on the MBean tab
2. Click the + symbol for "oracle.ucp.admin.UniversalConnectionPoolMBean"
3. Click on the "Attributes" or "Methods" node and you can view/update the pool using that MBean

The javadoc for the MBean this can be found here.

http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B28359_01/java.111/e11990/oracle/ucp/admin/UniversalConnectionPoolManagerMBean.html

In the example below I was using Oracle's UCP within a coherence cache server for write behind to an Oracle database.

Oracle Coherence - read-write-backing-map-scheme

I spent the last 2 weeks in Boston working with the oracle coherence team and how that product works and I am impressed with it. One thing which I was keen on testing out / learning in depth was the read-write-backing-map-scheme. I specifically wanted to learn write-behind which when enabled the cache will delay writes to the back end cache store, which in my example would be an Oracle 11g database. To me there is really only 2 options for this to be as quick as possible and of course use connection pooling which UCP (Oracle Universal Connection Pool) is perfect for.

1. JDBC Batching
2. PLSQL bulk binds

Whats important though is that we only commit after X amount of records, and only go to the database when we are ready to insert those X amount of records in a single round trip. To me PLSQL bulk binds make sense here, as all it takes is to convert those cache entries into an SQL object which the database can interpret from PLSQL. Once that's done your PLSQL is as simple as this really.

   FORALL i IN mid.FIRST..mid.LAST
         insert into messages (message_id, message_type, message)
         values (mid(i), mt(i), m(i));
 
   COMMIT;

I will post a full example on this shortly which also shows how to read the data back into the cache.

More about this can be found here on what I want to setup. My initial testing showed 1,000,000 records inserted without too much issues BUT there are a couple of things to be aware from coherence and oracle itself.

http://coherence.oracle.com/display/COH35UG/Read-Through%2C+Write-Through%2C+Write-Behind+and+Refresh-Ahead+Caching