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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

JBoss AS pools


Most services provided by the application server are granted by means of the pooling of resources. Keeping these resources in a pool avoids the burden of re-creating costly resources like database connections and can be used as well to limit the amount of requests to be processed by the application server. As a matter of fact, allowing an indiscriminate number of requests to access your resources can be quite dangerous and can expose your system to potential threats.

JBoss AS defines a large list of pools, which, depending on the nature of your application, can become a potential bottleneck if you don't configure them appropriately.

The following table introduces the list of pools, adding the relevant configuration information for it. You need to replace "<server>" with your server configuration, for example JBOSS_HOME/server/default is the path of the default configuration.

Pool

Used for

Configuration

System thread pool

For JNDI naming

<server>/conf/jboss...