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JBoss AS 5 Performance Tuning

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JBoss AS 5 Performance Tuning

Overview of this book

Today's organizations need to deliver faster services to a large set of people and businesses. In order to survive this challenge, enterprises need to optimize the performance of their application server along with its components and hardware. Writing faster applications is no longer just an option for your products; it's an imperative requirement, which you cannot ignore. JBoss AS 5 Performance Tuning will teach you how to deliver fast applications on the JBoss Application Server and Apache Tomcat, giving you a decisive competitive advantage over your competitors. You will learn how to optimize the hardware resources, meeting your application requirements with less expenditure.The performance of Java Enterprise applications is the sum of a set of components including the Java Virtual Machine configuration, the application server configuration (in our case, JBoss AS), the application code itself and ultimately the operating system. This book will show you how to apply the correct tuning methodology and use the tuning tools that will help you to monitor and address any performance issues. By looking more closely at the Java Virtual Machine, you will get a deeper understanding of what the available options are for your applications and how their performance will be affected. You will learn about thread pool tuning, EJB tuning, JMS tuning, Enterprise Java Beans, and the Java Messaging Service. The persistence layer and JBoss Clustering service each have a chapter dedicated to them as they are two of the most crucial elements to configure correctly in order to run a fast application. You will also learn how to tune your web server, enabling you to configure and develop web applications that get the most out of the embedded Tomcat web server.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
JBoss AS 5 Performance Tuning
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
A Tuned Mind
Index

Introduction to Enterprise Java Beans


Enterprise Java Bean technology hit the industry in 1999 and was quickly adopted by large companies. Unfortunately, problems were quick to appear and the reputation of EJBs began to suffer as a result. Some developers felt that the APIs of the EJB standard were far more complex than those developers were used to. An abundance of checked exceptions, required interfaces, and the implementation of the bean class as an abstract class were all unusual and counter-intuitive for many programmers.

This lead to a widespread perception that EJBs introduced complexity without delivering real benefits.

As a consequence, a counter-movement has grown up at grass-root level among programmers. The main products of this movement were the so-called 'lightweight' (that is, in comparison to EJB) technologies of Hibernate (for persistence and object-relational mapping) and Spring framework (which provided an alternate and far less verbose way to encode business logic). Despite...