Speed Up The WebLogic Portal Admin Tool

Large WLP applications usually have many desktops. For speed and convenience, these are often based on a .portal file. You may notice a long delay in the loading of the list of .portal files when creating a new desktop. If you do, you can greatly improve the speed of that list being created with one or two steps. The firs step is to store all of your .portal files in a single location. Many people do this already, which is why for them this will be a one step process. The final step is to add the path in web.xml like this:

<context-param>

	<param-name>portalFileDirectory</param-name>

	<param-value>/</param-value>

</context-param>

This can be found in the performance tuning manual that comes with WLP, but we all know how often we get to read the whole manual :)