TracePlus/Ethernet, a network packet analysis tool for Windows 95/98/ME, NT 4.x, Windows 2000/XP
Load Testing Tools
LoadRunner, a tool that predicts enterprise-level system behavior and performance by emulating thousands of users and employs performance monitors to identify and isolate problems.
e-Load, a fast and accurate way to perform load testing, scalability testing, stress testing of enterprise Web applications.
A profiler is a performance analysis tool that allows you to reveal hot spots in the application that result in either high CPU utilization or high contention for shared resources. Some common profilers are:
JProbe Profiler with Memory Debugger, a family of products that provide the capability to detect performance bottlenecks, perform code coverage and other metrics
PerformaSure a tool to detect, diagnose, and resolve performance problems in multi-tier J2EE applications
Production Performance Management
ClearApp provides comprehensive, enterprise class, fully integrated application production monitoring and diagnostic solutions for J2EE Infrastructures.
Veritas i3 for Web-J2EE is a monitoring, analysis, and tuning tool for Web-based J2EE Applications.
Wily Technology, Inc. provides management solutions for large-scale, real-time production Web applications, applications servers, portal solutions and integration middleware.
Benchmarking Information
SPECjbb2000, a software benchmark product developed by the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC). SPECjbb2000 is designed to measure a system’s ability to run Java server applications.
SPECjAppServer2004 (Java Application Server), a client/server benchmark for measuring the performance of Java Enterprise Application Servers using a subset of J2EE API's in a complete end-to-end web application.
Java HotSpot VM Options, a Sun Microsystems document provides information on the command-line options and environment variables that can affect the performance characteristics of the HotSpot JVM.
