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“The definitive master class in performance tuning Java applications…if you love all the gory details, this is the book for you.”

–James Gosling, creator of the Java Programming Language

 

Improvements in the Java platform and new multicore/multiprocessor hardware have made it possible to dramatically improve the performance and scalability of Java software.


Java™ Performance covers the latest Oracle and third-party tools for monitoring and measuring performance on a wide variety of hardware architectures and operating systems. The authors present dozens of tips and tricks you’ll find nowhere else.


You’ll learn how to construct experiments that identify opportunities for optimization, interpret the results, and take effective action. You’ll also find powerful insights into microbenchmarking–including how to avoid common mistakes that can mislead you into writing poorly performing software. Then, building on this foundation, you’ll walk through optimizing the Java HotSpot VM, standard and multitiered applications; Web applications, and more. Coverage includes

  • Taking a proactive approach to meeting application performance and scalability goals
  • Monitoring Java performance at the OS level in Windows, Linux, and Oracle Solaris environments
  • Using modern Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and OS observability tools to profile running systems, with almost no performance penalty
  • Gaining “under the hood” knowledge of the Java HotSpot VM that can help you address most Java performance issues
  • Integrating JVM-level and application monitoring
  • Mastering Java method and heap (memory) profiling
  • Tuning the Java HotSpot VM for startup, memory footprint, response time, and latency
  • Determining when Java applications require rework to meet performance goals
  • Systematically profiling and tuning performance in both Java SE and Java EE applications
  • Optimizing the performance of the Java HotSpot VM


Using this book, you can squeeze maximum performance and value from all your Java applications–no matter how complex they are, what platforms they’re running on, or how long you’ve been running them.

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 Title Sams Teach Yourself Java in 24 Hours Sams Teach Yourself Java in 21 Days Java™ for Programmers Java Performance Covering Java 7 and Android Covering Java 7 and Android Deitel Developer Series Covering Latest Oracle and Third-Party Tools Guide Type Tutorial Tutorial Tutorial Special Topic Audience Level Beginner Beginner to Intermediate Beginner to Intermediate Intermediate to Advanced Pages 432 720 1168 720 List Price $34.99 $44.99 $59.99 $59.99 Publication Date October, 2011 July, 2012 April, 2011 September, 2011 Author(s) Cadenhead Cadenhead Deitel / Deitel Hunt / John Imprint Sams Sams Prentice Hall Addison-Wesley Print Book 0672335751 0672335743 0132821540 0137142528 Kindle Book B005OR9MBW Not Available - Request Kindle Version B004YWAZUU B005R4NELQ Edition 6 6 2 1 Brief Description An introduction to programming and Java; no previous programming experience required. An introduction to Java, for readers with some previous programming experience. A comprehensive guide to Java, for professional programmers new to Java, but experienced with other programming languages. An authoritative guide to creating faster, more reliable applications, for intermediate to advanced programmers.

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Charlie Hunt is the JVM performance lead engineer at Oracle. He is responsible for improving the performance of the HotSpot JVM and Java SE class libraries. He has also been involved in improving the performance of the Oracle GlassFish and Oracle WebLogic Server. A regular JavaOne speaker on Java performance, he also coauthored NetBeans™ IDE Field Guide (Prentice Hall, 2005).

Binu John is a senior performance engineer at Ning, Inc., where he focuses on improving the performance and scalability of the Ning platform to support millions of page views per month. Before that, he spent more than a decade working on Java-related performance issues at Sun Microsystems, where he served on Sun’s Enterprise Java Performance team. John has contributed to developing industry standard benchmarks such as SPECjms2007 and SPECJAppServer2010; published several performance whitepapers; and contributed to java.net’s XMLTest and WSTest benchmark projects.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Addison-Wesley Professional; 1st edition (October 4, 2011)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
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  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0137142528
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0137142521
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  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 1.61 x 9.13 inches
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James White
5.0 out of 5 stars Great information albeit a bit skewed towards Oracle Products
Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2012
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Java Performance offers great information in regards to using the tools that come with a typical JDK download (jconsole and vmvisualizer) as well as Oracle/Sun based Java Profiling products. The level of detail and information provided as it relates to the architecture of the JVM, setting Java command line options, and benchmarking applications (JSE and JEE including EJB) is outstanding. I would suggest this book for an Java Developer and/or Architect looking to learn more about performance testing and tuning. The only knock I have on this book (and it is a small one at that) is they talk exclusively about Oracle Solaris Performance Analyzer as the tool they use to handle the code profiling. Which is fine, but it would have been nice to get a bit more than a sentence or two mentioning a couple of Windows based alternatives (Solaris Performance Analyzer only runs in *nix environments). A few lines about JProbe, JProfiler, etc. would have helped. But beyond that, this book is packed with tons of useful information that has helped me greatly understand the performance tuning, profiling, and benchmarking processes. If you are serious about wanting to improve the performance of your Java Applications, then this book is what you need whether you are a seasoned pro or just starting to understand the importance of performance testing.
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5.0 out of 5 stars must read for performance engineers!
Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2014
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This is a must read for performance engineers. But I would suggest reading this book in a different order:

Read Ch. 8 and 9 first. Chapter 9 shows how Little's law could be used for benchmark validation. This part is priceless, and can be applied to any benchmarks.

Ch. 2 is on monitoring the OS. Read this part only if you need it.

Ch. 3-7 is all about tuning the JVM and using profilers. I think this is the only book that describes how to tune the GC right now. Granted, it doesn't say much about how to write better java code. But I don't think that's the intention of this book.

Ch 10-12 is about tuning different kinds of Java applications. Read this part if you happened to be working with this kind of application.
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Merijn Vogel
4.0 out of 5 stars Everything you wanted to know but didn't
Reviewed in the United States on November 11, 2011
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This book is for everybody who wants to know how java is as fast these days as it is and how to get the most out of the virtual machine. It contains detailed explanation on the HotSpot JIT compiler, describes all the garbage collectors and gives many helpful tips. Among these tips are explanations for many of the -XX: tuning parameters for the 1.6 JVM.

A full chapter is dedicated to explain how to analyse your memoryallocations, with detailed explanation on the use of jvisualvm / visualgc.

It furthermore describes pitfalls and best practices on the creation of (micro-)benchmarks.

To me, it seems an unmissable book for every performance oriented java developer.
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O. Systems Inc.
5.0 out of 5 stars I think, with out looking into this book performance tuning is incomplete.
Reviewed in the United States on June 16, 2013
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I have been looking all around for Java Performance tuning and no book or article gave excellent information as this book did. The author described and explained very well, tuning from Operation System level to Java Application level. Could not able to resist reading couple of chapters immediately after receiving the book. Lots of valuable information about, OS tuning parameters affecting Java, Lots of JVM tuning tips and strategies,Bench marking and Profiling information ... much more. I am very much impressed. One of the best books I ever read on the Java Performance area.
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Simon Azriel
3.0 out of 5 stars Good information but...
Reviewed in the United States on July 6, 2012
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The book covers an important topic which you normally have to deduce through trial and error and piecing together disparate bits of information on the Oracle Technology site so from a content perspective it is great, but...

I know that Oracle has good technical writers. I really wish that the authors would have passed the manuscript around and received feedback on their writing. For example,

You only have to tell us once that the HotSpot Java VM will be referred to as the HotSpot VM hereafter - not repeatedly.

I recommend skipping chapter 1 entirely as a waste of paper and time. I'm in the "I don't care that I don't know what I don't know stage".

Maybe if you break the text down into sections like Josh Block did with his Effective Java book - that is a good example of a readable book.

Also how do ergonomics (page 60) fit into this? The VM guessing what heap size to use isn't ergonomic - it doesn't really have human factors impact - unless you can get RSI from a poorly tuned VM. If this is an attempt to introduce more technical jargon by co-opting terms, don't.

A good editor would do this book a great favor.
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Per Larsson
5.0 out of 5 stars Great non-basic book for anyone using Java!
Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2014
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This book is a really good read even if you are already experienced with Java. It offers more in-depth knowledge and you won't have to skip through the first chapters because they "are too basic". All of the content is consistently well written and exciting.
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Red Queen
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Book
Reviewed in the United States on September 23, 2013
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While there is heavy concentration on the GlassFish server (obviously)...overall the book is really good at digging into the dirty details of the performance mechanics of web applications, java, and benchmarking. The chapter on web services is good but it only covers SOAP web services and no REST WS. So that was a bit disappointing but overall I really enjoyed this book and I will go back and read it again.
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Roberto
5.0 out of 5 stars Must have for serious Java and JVM developers
Reviewed in the United States on February 22, 2013
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This book is a must have for serious Java and JVM developers because it dissects the JVM objects lifecycle and garbage collection behavior. The author also provides a series of debugging techniques to complement and instrument the understanding. A must have book for serious developers concerned with performance.
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michir
5.0 out of 5 stars Très bon ouvrage
Reviewed in France on September 18, 2014
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Très bon ouvrage ... je recommande vivement. C'est un "must" si vous faites du Java et si vous voulez comprendre comment vous pouvez rendre vos applications plus performantes.
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Nishank
5.0 out of 5 stars ... the market which explains java performance in such a nice manner. I am doing java development for past ...
Reviewed in India on August 21, 2014
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One of the few books in the market which explains java performance in such a nice manner.

I am doing java development for past 9 years and always longed for some good reference which can help me in resolving the performance issues during crunch times. This book perfectly fits the bill.

My advise to potential buyers is that don't treat this as a text book rather a reference book.
By the way third chapter is a gem. It is the USP of this book. Don't miss that chapter
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 11, 2014
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Alessandro De Sanctis
4.0 out of 5 stars Obbligatorio per ogni architetto Java
Reviewed in Italy on December 29, 2012
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Da molti anni mi occupo di Application Performance Management in ambito Java/J2EE.
Ogni volta che vado su un progetto mi dicono che hanno già fatto tutte le ottimizzazioni possibili, ma non sono sicuri della configurazione del Garbage Collector. Ecco, la verità è che il Garbage Collector non è mai un problema, se mai è un problema il fatto che una funzione richieda 100MB di ram per leggere dei dati da un databse e produrre una pagina con la loro rappresentazione.
Molti strumenti sono disponibili per aiutare questa attività, spesso molto costosi. Ma ciò che ho notato mancare più spesso è una visione d'insieme del problema.
Questo libro è probabilmente la risorsa definitiva per chi vuole imparare ad affrontare i problemi di ottimizzazione delle applicazioni Java esistenti: racconta cià che serve sapere a livello di JVM (tanto), Garbage Collector (abbastanza poco dopo che il GC è diventato intelligente) e Sistema Operativo.
Il resto lo si scopre analizzando staticamente e dinamicamente l'applicazione tramite analyzer, profiler o instrumentatori.
Non aspettatevi che questo libro vi dica se è meglio JDBC, Hibernate o altro. Vi aiuterà solo a capire come fare a scoprire quali sono i problemi delle vostre applicazioni.
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Karl-heinz Reng
4.0 out of 5 stars Gutes Buch
Reviewed in Germany on February 12, 2012
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Gutes Buch. Der Autor beschreibt als Kenner sehr gut wie man aus Java Programmen die letzten Feinheiten rauskitzelt. Einen Punkt muß ich deswegen abziehen, weil das buch leider an vielen Stellen sehr SUN/Oracle Server lastig ist. Es wird an einige Stellen sehr intensiv auf die Vorzüge von Sparc CPUs und der SUN/Oracle Architektur eingegangen.

Für Anwender mit Intel CPUs / Intel Architektur sind daher einige dieser Aussagen daher nicht so hilfreich.

Der Autor beschreibt wirklich akribisch genau, wie man Java Programme auf Performance Probleme testet, und welche Einstellungen notwendig sind um performante Java Programme zu erhalten und man das letzte aus der JVM rausholen kann.

In diesem Zusammenhang sollte man immer dafür sorgen, dass das verwendete JDK unbedingt soweit möglich am aktuellsten Release Stand / Patch Level befindet

Aber es gibt zur Zeit aber trotzdem nichts besseres als dieses Buch. Jedem Java Entwickler daher sehr zu empfehlen.
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