Creating Request Class for your WorkManagers

A Request class expresses a scheduling guideline that WebLogic Server uses to allocate threads to requests. Request classes help ensure that high priority work is scheduled before less important work, even if the high priority work is submitted after the lower priority work. There are three types of Request classes you can apply to your modules:

• Fair Share Request Class: Specifies the average thread use-time required to process requests. The default is 50.
• Response Time Request Class: Specifies a response time goal in milliseconds.
• Context Request Class: Assigns request classes to requests based on context information.

 

You can configure a new Request Class from the Console or using Weblogic descriptors.

Let’s see how to create a Response Goal and associate it with your Work Manager configuration:

1.       Select in the left Panel: Environment | Work Manager and click on “New”. Now choose the Request class that you want to create (for example a Response Time Request class).

2.       In the next screen, enter the Request class Name and the Response Goal desired, as depicted by the following picture:

3.       Now you can select your Request class in your Work Manager Configuration, by selecting the Request class Combo Box. Alternatively, clicking on the “New” button will let you define a new Request Class: