Best Practices for Middle-Tier Configuration

This chapter provides sample middle-tier topologies and guidelines for achieving better efficiency and performance with the middle-tier components in the SAS Intelligence Platform. The middle tier provides an environment for running the following SAS Web clients:

• SAS Information Delivery Portal

• SAS Web Report Studio

• SAS BI Dashboard

• SAS Web OLAP Viewer for Java

Configuration instructions vary depending on the Web application server installed at your site. For configuration instructions that pertain to the topics discussed in this chapter, see the following third-party vendor Web sites:

• JBoss Application Server: http://www.jboss.org/docs

• IBM WebSphere Application Server: http://www.ibm.com/support/documentation/us/en

• Oracle WebLogic Server: http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/index.html

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