Pro Java EE 5 Performance Management and Optimization [Hardcover]

Steven Haines (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1590596102 | ISBN-13: 978-1590596104 | Publication Date: May 9, 2006 | Edition: 1st ed. 2006. Corr. 2nd printing

Pro Java EE 5 Performance Management and Optimization is the definitive resource and companion if you’re tasked with managing a Java EE 5 environment. This book features proven methodology to guarantee top performing Java EE 5 applications, and explains how to measure performance in your specific environment. The book also details performance integration points throughout the development and deployment lifecycles that are paramount for application success.

In QA and pre-production, this book guides you through testing and optimally deploying your Java EE 5 applications, with particular attention to assessing capacity and discovering your saturation points. It defines the concept and application of wait-based tuning, which is one of the most effective approaches to application server tuning.

After your applications are deployed to production, the book helps you assess and improve their health. Some topics include trending, forecasting, and capacity assessment and planning. Then when production issues arise, you’ll be armed with troubleshooting methodology, including solutions to common problems that have been observed in real-world environments. This book even guides you through the creation of a formal Java EE 5 Performance Management Plan—customized to your environment to help you interpret and react to changing trends in usage patterns.

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About the Author

Steven Haines - Steven Haines is the author of three Java books: The Java Reference Guide (InformIT/Pearson 2005), Java 2 Primer Plus (SAMS 2002), and Java 2 From Scratch (QUE, 1999). In addition to contributing chapters and co-authoring other books, as well as technical editing countless software publications, he is also the Java Host on InformIT.com. As an educator he has taught all aspects of Java at Learning Tree University as well as at the University of California, Irvine. By day he works as a Java EE 5 Performance Architect at Quest Software defining performance tuning and monitoring software as well as managing and performing Java EE 5 performance tuning engagements for large-scale Java EE 5 deployments, including several fortune 500 companies.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 432 pages
• Publisher: Apress; 1st ed. 2006. Corr. 2nd printing edition (May 9, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1590596102
• ISBN-13: 978-1590596104
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 7.2 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #329,272 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Your Performance tuning and monitoring Bible, August 31, 2006

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Mark Spritzler (Long Beach, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pro Java EE 5 Performance Management and Optimization (Hardcover)

This is a one of a kind book. It is the only one that discusses performance maintenance and optimization for all your Java EE applications, from code to servers.

The first section covers processes that you need to have in the full lifecycle of your application. Starting monitoring and performance tuning early on in the process to make it easier to keep your app performing at its best.

The second part covers performance tuning, where to best tune your application for the biggest bang for your buck, from the JVM, first place to tune, to your pooling and other configurations.

The third part covers tuning your production environment, which should be easy, as long as you have statistics already from your development to test server load balancing.

And finally the last part has tips and tricks.

For just the 10 pages on JVM Heap/Garbage Collection and tuning alone is worth the price of the book.

This book should be your single source of performance tuning and monitoring for all Java EE Applications. It is your bible on performance.

5.0 out of 5 stars The book for JEE application performance management, November 21, 2011

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Raghu Mysore - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Pro Java EE 5 Performance Management and Optimization (Hardcover)

This is "the" book for those interested in performance management (and tuning) of JEE applications. Several important items like capacity assessment, scalability, instrumentation, load tests and resource usage metrics are dealt in detail, apart from the core aspects about performance. The author's emphasis about correlation of performance metrics in evaluating an enterprise application, is just awesome. Copious code chunks help drive home the concepts. IBM's "funnel effect" paradigm (for tuning JEE threads and queues), is presented nicely here as Wait-based tuning.

5.0 out of 5 stars Worthy every penny, September 6, 2011

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Vladislav Gangan (Chişinău, Moldova) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pro Java EE 5 Performance Management and Optimization (Hardcover)

Really liked the book. Contains tons of valuable advices on how to approach not only current Java performance problems but also on how to protect your systems against future changes in usage patterns. The chapter on wait-based tuning approach is a gem IMO, and so is the last chapter that acts as a cheat sheet for the most commonly observed performance related problems in Java EE environments. Highly recommended to anyone interested in making sure their software systems are tuned and in good shapes, and especially to those whose systems are not.