In this chapter, we briefly covered the tuning aspects in the enterprise application environment, starting from the most important aspect, which is the JVM tuning. We dissected the HotSpot JVM in detail and covered some gaps and differences when we discussed the JRockit JVM performance tuning.

We also discussed the application server tuning and selected the basic server, GlassFish being the reference implementation server as an example for the basic required tuning in the different enterprise application components. We also highlighted some points in the Weblogic server as an example of other areas that we need to look into.

We covered the Apache web server as an example of the HTTP web servers and discussed a few areas for performance tuning. We gave a few hints about the Oracle web server being based on the Apache web server, and then highlighted a few points for the operating system and hardware scaling directions, which must be based on the vendor's recommendations and application...