Java Performance

eBook Details:

• Paperback: 720 pages
• Publisher: WOW! eBook; 1st edition (October 14, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0137142528
• ISBN-13: 978-0137142521

eBook Description:

Java Performance

Java Performance covers the latest Oracle and third-party tools to monitor and measure performance on a wide variety of hardware architectures and operating systems. Drawing on their unsurpassed insider experience, the authors present dozens of tips and tricks you’ll find nowhere else.

Improvements in the Java platform and new multicore/multiprocessor hardware have made it possible to dramatically improve the performance and scalability of Java software. Now, two leading Java performance experts have written the first start-to-finish guide to optimizing Java performance in today’s systems. Writing for developers, designers, and architects, Charlie Hunt and Binu John offer uniquely detailed, comprehensive, and up-to-date coverage of all aspects of Java performance improvement, from monitoring and profiling to upgrading code from Java 1.4.2 or Java 5.

You’ll learn how to construct experiments that identify opportunities for optimization, interpret the results, and take effective action. You’ll also find powerful new 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 Oracle HotSpot VM; standard and multitiered applications; Web applications and services; persistence, EJBs, 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 Solaris environments
• Using modern JVM and OS observability tools to profile running systems, with almost no performance penalty
• Gaining “under the hood” knowledge of the Oracle 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 Oracle 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 Oracle 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.

Improvements in the Java platform and new multicore/multiprocessor hardware have made it possible to dramatically improve the performance and scalability of Java software. Now, two leading Java performance experts have written the first start-to-finish guide to optimizing Java performance in today’s systems. Writing for developers, designers, and architects, Charlie Hunt and Binu John offer uniquely detailed, comprehensive, and up-to-date coverage of all aspects of Java performance improvement, from monitoring and profiling to upgrading code from Java 1.4.2 or Java 5.

Java Performance covers the latest Oracle and third-party tools to monitor and measure performance on a wide variety of hardware architectures and operating systems. Drawing on their unsurpassed insider experience, 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 new 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 Oracle HotSpot VM; standard and multitiered applications; Web applications and services; persistence, EJBs, and more.

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