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Related Reading

This section provides an extensive performance-related reading list, including the following:

- BEA Systems, Inc. Information

- Sun Microsystems Information

- Linux OS Information

- Hewlett-Packard Company Information

- Microsoft Information

- Web Performance Tuning Information

- Network Performance Tools

- Performance Analysis Tools

- Benchmarking Information

- Java Virtual Machine (JVM) Information

- Enterprise JavaBeans Information

- Java Message Service (JMS) Information

- General Performance Information

BEA Systems, Inc. Information

- For general information about BEA Systems, see The BEA web site.

- BEA WebLogic Server Product Documentation page

- BEA WebLogic Server White Papers

- J2EE Design Considerations for WebLogic Server, BEA White Paper, 2000

- J2EE Applications and BEA WebLogic Server by Michael Girdley, Rob Woollen, Sandra Emerson, 2001

- Professional J2EE Programming with BEA WebLogic Server by Paco Gomez, Peter Zadrozny, 2000

- J2EE Performance Testing with BEA WebLogic Server by Peter Zadrozny, Philip Aston, and Ted Osborne 2002

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 Sun Microsystems Solaris on SPARC on the BEA Platform page.

- For more about Solaris configuration, check the Solaris FAQ.

- Sun Performance and Tuning Java and the Internet by Adrian Cockcroft, et al, 1997.

- 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

Hewlett-Packard Company Information

- General Hewlett-Packard information

- Java Performance Tuning on HP-UX

- Hewlett Packard JMeter, a tool for analyzing profiling information

- GlancePlus system performance diagnostic tool

- HPjconfig Java configuration tool

Microsoft Information

- General Microsoft information

- Windows 2000 Performance Tuning White Paper

- 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.

Network Performance Tools

- Systems, Software, Technology (SST) IncorporatedTracePlus/Ethernet.

  TracePlus/Ethernet is a network packet analysis tool for Windows 95/98/ME, NT 4.x, Windows 2000/XP.

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 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

- SE Toolkit, a performance analysis tool kit.

Benchmarking Information

- SPECjbb2000

  SPECjbb2000 is a software benchmark product developed by the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC). It is designed to measure a system's ability to run Java server applications.

- ECPerf Benchmark Specification

- eTesting Labs Inc.

  eTesting Labs Inc., a Ziff Davis Media company, is an independent developer of benchmark software, including WebBench 4.0.

Java Virtual Machine (JVM) Information

- JVM Corner at artima.com

- Frequently asked questions about the Java HotSpot virtual machine

  This Sun Microsystems FAQ answers common questions about Java HotSpot technology and about performance in general.

- Tuning Garbage Collection with the 1.3.1 Java Virtual Machine

  This Sun Microsystems document provides an thorough overview of garbage collection tuning.

- Java HotSpot VM Options

  This Sun Microsystems document provides information on the command-line options and environment variables that can affect the performance characteristics of the Java HotSpot Virtual Machine.

- The Java HotSpot Client and Server Virtual Machines

  This Sun Microsystems document discusses the two implementations of the Java virtual machine that are available for J2SE 1.3

- 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.

Java Message Service (JMS) Information

- Programming WebLogic JMS

- WebLogic JMS Performance Guide white paper on the BEA dev2dev Web site

- JMS Specification

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.

- Performance and Idiom Guide by Craig Larman and Rhett Guthrie, 1999.

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