Java Performance 1st Edition

by Charlie Hunt (Author), Binu John (Author)

38 customer reviews

ISBN-13: 978-0137142521

ISBN-10: 0137142528

Why is ISBN important?

Sell yours for a Gift Card
We'll buy it for $5.46
Learn More
Trade in now

Have one to sell? Sell on Amazon

Share <Embed>

Condition: Used - Very Good

In Stock. Sold by Perpetual Textbooks, Fulfilled by Amazon

Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items.

20 Used from $14.95

FREE Shipping

Turn on 1-Click ordering

In Stock.

Ships from and sold by Amazon.com. Gift-wrap available.

This item ships to France. Want it Wednesday, May 3? Order within and choose AmazonGlobal Priority Shipping at checkout. Learn more

List Price: $59.99 Save: $12.48 (21%)

21 New from $42.68

Turn on 1-Click ordering

Ship to:

France

Price

New from

Used from

Kindle

"Please retry"

$26.72

—

Paperback

"Please retry"

$47.51

$42.68

$14.95

More Buying Choices

21 New from $42.68 20 Used from $14.95

41 used & new from $14.95

See All Buying Options

Free%20Two-Day%20Shipping%20for%20College%20Students%20with%20Amazon%20Student

“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.

Java Performance

$47.51 In Stock. Ships from and sold by Amazon.com. Gift-wrap available.

Frequently bought together

Total price: $108.56

Buy the selected items together

This item:Java Performance by Charlie Hunt Paperback $47.51
In Stock.
Ships from and sold by Amazon.com.
FREE Shipping. Details
Java Concurrency in Practice by Brian Goetz Paperback $23.68
In Stock.
Ships from and sold by Amazon.com.
FREE Shipping on orders over $25. Details
Effective Java (2nd Edition) by Joshua Bloch Paperback $37.37
In Stock.
Ships from and sold by Amazon.com.
FREE Shipping. Details

Customers who bought this item also bought

Page 1 of 1 Start overPage 1 of 1

This shopping feature will continue to load items. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading.

Scott Oaks

30

Paperback
$32.82
Brian Goetz

162

Paperback
$23.68
Charlie Hunt

2

Paperback
$36.79
Joshua Bloch

232

Paperback
$37.37
Raoul-Gabriel Urma

77

Paperback
$36.72
Maurice Naftalin

32

Paperback
$21.47

Customers viewing this page may be interested in these sponsored links

(What's this?)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

More to Explore: See More Java Guides

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.

About the Author

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.

NO_CONTENT_IN_FEATURE

Product details

Paperback: 720 pages
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 1 edition (October 14, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0137142528
ISBN-13: 978-0137142521
Product Dimensions: 7 x 0.9 x 9.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (38 customer reviews)
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #276,430 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #248 in Books > Computers & Technology > Programming > Languages & Tools > Java
- #849 in Books > Textbooks > Computer Science > Programming Languages

If you are a seller for this product, would you like to suggest updates through seller support?

Customers viewing this page may be interested in these sponsored links

(What's this?)

Customer Reviews

4.3 out of 5 stars

5 star		74%
4 star		10%
3 star		8%
2 star		3%
1 star		5%

Write a customer review

See all verified purchase reviews

Top Customer Reviews

Great information albeit a bit skewed towards Oracle Products

ByAmazon Customeron January 25, 2012

Format: PaperbackVerified Purchase

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.

0Comment 3 people found this helpful. Was this review helpful to you?YesNo

Excellent reading to boost your Apps Java Performance

ByAakriton July 10, 2014

Format: Kindle EditionVerified Purchase

Great read for all Java lovers looking to boost modern application performance. The books is fairly new and hence focuses on the current JDK/JRE features.

0CommentWas this review helpful to you?YesNo

must read for performance engineers!

Byhsuon January 23, 2014

Format: PaperbackVerified Purchase

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.

0Comment One person found this helpful. Was this review helpful to you?YesNo

I think, with out looking into this book performance tuning is incomplete.

ByO. Systems Inc.on June 16, 2013

Format: PaperbackVerified Purchase

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.

0CommentWas this review helpful to you?YesNo

Good information but...

BySimon Azrielon July 6, 2012

Format: PaperbackVerified Purchase

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.

11 comment 5 people found this helpful. Was this review helpful to you?YesNo

Excellent Book

ByRed Queenon September 23, 2013

Format: PaperbackVerified Purchase

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.

0CommentWas this review helpful to you?YesNo

Must have for serious Java and JVM developers

ByRobertoon February 22, 2013

Format: Kindle EditionVerified Purchase

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.

0Comment One person found this helpful. Was this review helpful to you?YesNo

Everything you wanted to know but didn't

ByMerijn Vogelon November 11, 2011

Format: PaperbackVerified Purchase

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.

0Comment 5 people found this helpful. Was this review helpful to you?YesNo

Most Recent Customer Reviews

Too wordy, and out of date

I needed to read way too much general waffle in order to get to the meaty sections of this book. Then, when I got to the meaty sections I found that they were not relevant to the...Read more

Published 1 year ago by Steven A McLeod

Charlie is a Java Genius. This is the detail ...

Charlie is a Java Genius. This is the detail you have been looking to find for years. Now you can figure out why those Java apps are slow.

Published 1 year ago by Will

Five Stars

As brand new as is gets.

Published 1 year ago by DEVEN M PANCHAL

Not Nicely written and bullet-ed book

Not Nicely written and bullet-ed book , but this book clarifies most of the doubt in much better way than any other book I have read for Java performance.Read more

Published on February 27, 2015 by Amazon Customer

Five Stars

Awesome

Published on October 26, 2014 by Shen Li

Three Stars

Pretty ordinary tuning book

Published on October 7, 2014 by David Collier-Brown

Two Stars

overrated. pricey.

Published on September 11, 2014 by Ram.G

The definitive book on Java Performance

I purchased this book primarily because (a) I routinely work in the Java performance arena, and (b) I know the author personally. I was not disappointed.

Published on July 31, 2014 by Andrew Johnson

Great non-basic book for anyone using Java!

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...Read more

Published on March 1, 2014 by Per Larsson

Drinking from the Firehose

Even though the Java platform (along with JVM) is one of the most ubiquotus software develoment platforms, it was surprisingly difficult to find a self-contained book dedicated to...Read more

Published on December 8, 2013 by Emre Sevinc

Set up an Amazon Giveaway

Amazon Giveaway allows you to run promotional giveaways in order to create buzz, reward your audience, and attract new followers and customers. Learn more about Amazon Giveaway

This item: Java Performance

Set up a giveaway