Related Reading

 

This section provides an extensive performance-related reading list, including the following:

• BEA Systems, Inc. Information

• Sun Microsystems Information

• Hewlett-Packard Company Information

• Microsoft Information

• Network Performance Tools

• Performance Analysis Tools

• Benchmarking Information

• Java Virtual Machine (JVM) Information

• Enterprise JavaBeans Information

• General Performance Information

BEA Systems, Inc. Information

• For general information about BEA Systems, see the BEA web site.

• BEA WebLogic Server Product Documentation page

• BEA WebLogic Server White Papers

• J2EE Design Considerations for WebLogic Server, BEA White Paper, 2000.

• J2EE Applications and BEA WebLogic Server by Michael Girdley, Rob Woollen, Sandra Emerson, 2001.

• Professional J2EE Programming with BEA WebLogic Server by Paco Gomez, Peter Zadrozny, 2000.

Sun Microsystems Information

• For general information about Sun Microsystems, see Sun's web site.

• Sun Microsystems Performance Information

• Java Standard Edition Platform Documentation

• Java 2 SDK, Standard Edition Documentation

• Solaris Tunable Parameters Reference Manual

• For BEA WebLogic Server and Solaris-specific details, see Sun Microsystems Solaris on SPARC on the BEA Platform page.

• For more about Solaris configuration, check the Solaris FAQ.

• Sun Performance and Tuning Java and the Internet by Adrian Cockcroft, et al, 1997.

• Solaris 7 Performance Administration Tools by Frank Cervone, 2000.

Hewlett-Packard Company Information

• General Hewlett-Packard information

• Java products for HP-UX

• Java Performance Tuning on HP-UX

• glance/jpm performance diagnostic tool

• HPjconfig Java configuration tool

Microsoft Information

• General Microsoft information

• Windows 2000 Performance Tuning White Paper

• SQL-Server-Performance.Com, Microsoft SQL Server Performance Tuning and Optimization

• Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Performance Optimization and Tuning Handbook, by Ken England, 2001, Digital Press.

Network Performance Tools

• Systems, Software, Technology (SST) IncorporatedTracePlus/Ethernet.

  TracePlus/Ethernet is a network packet analysis tool for Windows 95/98/ME, NT 4.x, Windows 2000/XP.

Performance Analysis Tools

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:

• OptimizeIt Java Performance Profiler

  A performance debugging tool for Solaris and NT.

• Hewlett Packard JMeter

  A Hewlett Packard tool for analyzing profiling information.

• JProbe Profiler with Memory Debugger

  A family of products that provide the capability to detect performance bottlenecks, perform code coverage and other metrics.

• Topaz, Mercury Interactive's application performance management solution

Benchmarking Information

• SPECjbb2000

  SPECjbb2000 is a software benchmark product developed by the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC). It is designed to measure a system's ability to run Java server applications.

• ECPerf Benchmark Specification

  ECperf is an EJB performance workload that is real-world, scalable and captures the essence of why component models exist.

• eTesting Labs Inc.

  eTesting Labs Inc., a Ziff Davis Media company, is an independent developer of benchmark software, including WebBench 4.0.

• SE Toolkit

  A performance analysis tool kit.

Java Virtual Machine (JVM) Information

• Frequently asked questions about the Java HotSpot virtual machine

  This Sun Microsystems FAQ answers common questions about Java HotSpot technology and about performance in general.

• Tuning Garbage Collection with the 1.3.1 Java Virtual Machine

  This Sun Microsystems document provides an thorough overview of garbage collection tuning.

• Java HotSpot VM Options

  This Sun Microsystems document provides information on the command-line options and environment variables that can affect the performance characteristics of the Java HotSpot Virtual Machine.

• The Java HotSpot Client and Server Virtual Machines

  This Sun Microsystems document discusses the two implementations of the Java virtual machine that are available for J2SE 1.3

• JavaWorld article, Sun Microsystems HotSpot

  This document from JavaWorld discusses Sun's HotSpot VM.

• Which Java VM scales best?

  From JavaWorld, results of a new VolanoMark 2.0 server benchmark show how 12 virtual machines stack up.

Enterprise JavaBeans Information

• Enterprise JavaBeans, Second Edition, by Richard Monson-Haefel, Mike Loukides (Editor), 2000.

• Mastering Enterprise JavaBeans and the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition, by Ed Roman, 1999.

• TheServerSide.com

  A free online community dedicated to Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs) and J2EE.

• Seven Rules for Optimizing Entity Beans, by Akara Sucharitakul, Java Developer Connection, 2001.

General Performance Information

• Jack Shirazi's Java Performance Tuning web site.

• The Software Testing and Quality Engineering Magazine, Web Application Scalability, "Avoiding Scalability Shock" by Bill Shea, May/June 2000.

• High-Performance Java Platform Computing by Thomas W. Christopher, George K. Thiruvathukal, 2000.

• Performance and Idiom Guide by Craig Larman and Rhett Guthrie, 1999.