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Java EE 8 High Performance

By : Romain Manni-Bucau
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Java EE 8 High Performance

By: Romain Manni-Bucau

Overview of this book

The ease with which we write applications has been increasing, but with this comes the need to address their performance. A balancing act between easily implementing complex applications and keeping their performance optimal is a present-day need. In this book, we explore how to achieve this crucial balance while developing and deploying applications with Java EE 8. The book starts by analyzing various Java EE specifications to identify those potentially affecting performance adversely. Then, we move on to monitoring techniques that enable us to identify performance bottlenecks and optimize performance metrics. Next, we look at techniques that help us achieve high performance: memory optimization, concurrency, multi-threading, scaling, and caching. We also look at fault tolerance solutions and the importance of logging. Lastly, you will learn to benchmark your application and also implement solutions for continuous performance evaluation. By the end of the book, you will have gained insights into various techniques and solutions that will help create high-performance applications in the Java EE 8 environment.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, you understood that the Java EE server's role is to make the development of the application easier and faster, providing out-of-the-box services and implementations. We browsed through some common examples, detailed their implications in terms of the code, and, therefore, the performance. We saw that the JPA handles statement creation automatically, securely, and correctly and that your code can imply some unoptimized queries if not designed close enough of the data. This is a good example showing that Java EE is here to enable you to build the best application as easily as possible even though you need to take care of some points (often related to design) in order to ensure you meet your performance requirements.

At this point, we have an application (Chapter 1, Money – The Quote Manager Application), we know what it does, and how the Java...