WebLogic Server Performance and Tuning

BEA Systems, Inc. Information

For general information about BEA Systems, see the BEA Web site
BEA WebLogic Server Documentation page
BEA's dev2dev Web site
BEA WebLogic Server Evaluation White Papers (for example, "J2EE Design Considerations for WebLogic Server" and "Distributed Computing with BEA WebLogic Server")
Professional J2EE Programming with BEA WebLogic Server by Paco Gomez and Peter Zadrozny, 2000
BEA WebLogic Server Bible by Joe Zuffoletto, et al, 2002
J2EE Performance Testing with BEA WebLogic Server by Peter Zadrozny, Philip Aston, and Ted Osborne, 2002
Mastering BEA WebLogic Server: Best Practices for Building and Deploying J2EE Applications by Gregory Nyberg, Robert Patrick, Paul Bauerschmidt, Jeff McDaniel, and Raja Mukherjee, 2003

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 the SPARC Solaris links on the Supported Configurations pages.
For more about Solaris configuration, check the Solaris FAQ
Sun Performance and Tuning: Java and the Internet by Adrian Cockcroft, et al, 1998
Solaris 7 Performance Administration Tools by Frank Cervone, 2000

Linux OS Information

For general information about the Linux operating system, see Linux Online
For information about the Linux Documentation Project, see LDP
For information about Redhat Enterprise Linux, see Redhat
For information about SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, see SuSE Linux
Linux Performance Tuning and Capacity Planning, by Jason R. Find, et al, 1997, Sams 2001
Ipsysctl Tutorial 1.0.4 describes the IP options provided by Linux
The Linux Cookbook: Tips and Techniques for Everyday Use, by Michael Stutz

Hewlett-Packard Company Information

General Hewlett-Packard information
For BEA WebLogic Server and HP-UX-specific details, see Hewlett-Packard HP/9000 with HP-UX 11.0 and 11i on the BEA Certifications Pages
Java Performance Tuning on HP-UX
Hewlett Packard JMeter, a tool for analyzing profiling information
GlancePlus system performance diagnostic tool

HPjconfig Java system configuration tool

Microsoft Information

General Microsoft information
Windows 2000 Performance Tuning White Paper
Windows 2000 Performance Guide, by Mark Friedman and Odysseas Pentakalos, 2002, O'Reilly
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

Web Performance Tuning Information

Apache Performance Notes
iPlanet Web Server 4.0 Performance Tuning, Sizing, and Scaling
The Art and Science of Web Server Tuning with Internet Information Services 5.0
Web Performance Tuning: Speeding Up the Web, by Patrick Killelea, Linda Mui (Editor), O'Reilly Nutshell, 1998
Capacity Planning for Web Performance: Metrics, Models, and Methods, by Daniel A. Menasce, Virgilio A. F. Almeida, Prentice Hall PTR, 1998
Scaling for E-Business: Technologies, Models, Performance, and Capacity Planning, by Daniel A. Menasce, Virgilio A. F. Almeida, Prentice Hall PTR, 2000

Network Performance Tools

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.
The Grinder, a pure Java load-testing framework.

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 from Borland, a performance debugging tool for Solaris and Windows
JProbe Profiler with Memory Debugger, a family of products that provide the capability to detect performance bottlenecks, perform code coverage and other metrics
Hewlett Packard JMeter, a tool for analyzing profiling information
Topaz, Mercury Interactive's application performance management solution
VTune Performance Analyzer a tool to identify and locate performance bottlenecks in your code

PerformaSure a tool to detect, diagnose, and resolve performance problems in multi-tier J2EE applications

Production Performance Management

Acsera provides comprehensive, enterprise class, fully integrated application production monitoring and diagnostic solutions for J2EE Infrastructures.

See http://www.acsera.com

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.

http://partners.bea.com/search.portal?partnerId=192

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 Virtual Machine (JVM) Information

BEA JRockit JDK Documentation
BEA JRockit Memory Leak Detector
BEA JRockit Runtime Analyzer

http://dev2dev.bea.com/jrockit/tools.html

JVM Corner at artima.com

Performance Tuning for HP-UX Systems

http://www.presentationselect.com/hpinvent/archivec.asp?ctg=PFT.

Sun Microsystems FAQ about Java HotSpot technology and about performance in general
Performance Documentation for the Java HotSpot Virtual Machine

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.

Improving Java Application Performance and Scalability by Reducing Garbage Collection Times and Sizing Memory Using JDK 1.4.1, a Sun Microsystem document on how to reduce garbage collection times with JDK 1.4.1.
The Java Virtual Machines for J2SE 1.5.0
Which Java VM scales best? From JavaWorld, results of a VolanoMark 2.0 server benchmark show how 12 virtual machines stack up.
Garbage Collection: Algorithms for Automatic Dynamic Memory Management by Richard Jones, Rafael D Lins, John Wiley & Sons, 1999

Enterprise JavaBeans Information

Programming WebLogic Enterprise JavaBeans
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

WebLogic Store Information

Using the WebLogic Persistent Store in Configuring WebLogic Server Environments.

Java Message Service (JMS) Information

Messaging (JMS) for BEA WebLogic Server JMS Specification

Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) Information

Performance Tuning Your JDBC Application

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^{^TM} by Thomas W. Christopher, George K. Thiruvathukal, 2000
Performance and Idiom Guide by Craig Larman and Rhett Guthrie, 1999

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