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Oracle JRockit: The Definitive Guide

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Oracle JRockit: The Definitive Guide

Overview of this book

Oracle JRockit is one of the industry’s highest performing Java Virtual Machines. Java developers are always on the lookout for better ways to analyze application behavior and gain performance. As we all know, this is not as easy as it looks. Welcome to JRockit: The Definitive Guide.This book helps you gain in-depth knowledge of Java from the JVM’s point of view. We will explain how to write code that works well with the JVM to gain performance and scalability. Starting with the inner workings of the JRockit JVM and finishing with a thorough walkthrough of the tools in the JRockit Mission Control suite, this book is for anyone who wants to know more about how the JVM executes your Java application and how to profile for better performance.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Oracle JRockit
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
Preface
12
Using the JRockit Management APIs
Bibliography
Glossary
AST
CAS
HIR
IR
JFR
JMX
JRA
JSR
LIR
MD5
MIR
PDE
RCP
SWT
TLA
Index

About the Reviewers

Anders Åstrand has a Master's degree in Computer Science from the Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. He has worked at Oracle (formerly BEA Systems) since 2007, in the JRockit performance team.

Staffan Friberg leads the JRockit Performance Team at Oracle, with seven years of experience in QA and Performance Engineering for the JVM.

Markus Grönlund is a Senior Software Engineer with Oracle Corporation and has worked extensively in the Oracle JRockit Virtual Machine development and support arena for the past three years. Markus has been supporting Oracle JRockit VMs the largest mission critical JRockit customers, providing expertise in debugging, configuration, and training.

Prior to joining Oracle Corporation, Markus worked for seven years as a Senior Technical Architect for Intel Corporation, driving early adoption of next-generation Intel Architectures.

Daniel Källander is Development Manager for JRockit and has been with the JRockit team since 2005. Since 1996, he has been a founding member of three IT companies. Before entering the IT industry he completed a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics, and later also an MBA in International Business.

Bengt Rutisson is Development Manager at Oracle focusing on JRockit garbage collection and memory management. He joined the JRockit team in 2006 and has been working with garbage collection and memory management since then.

Prior to working with JRockit, Bengt has been responsible for several products in Java (for example, the Appear Context Engine) and in Component Pascal (for example, the BlackBox Component Builder).

Henrik Ståhl is Senior Director of Product Management at Oracle, responsible for product strategy for JRockit. In this position, he is constantly looking for new ways to make the Java Virtual Machine more useful. He has been working with the JRockit team since 2004, starting out as Team Lead for the JVM performance team before moving to a product management role. Prior to Oracle, he was Co-Founder and CTO of the Swedish IT consultancy Omegapoint, lead developer for the core part of the Swedish BankID service and Senior Consultant at Icon Medialab. Henrik holds an M.Sc. in Engineering Physics from the Royal Institute of Technology and lives outside of Stockholm, Sweden with his family.

 

For my family, who endured me being inaccessible for nights and weekends both working on the new major release and writing this book: Malin, Alexander, and little Natalie.

 
 --Marcus Hirt
 

For my family: Klara, Alice, and Ylva. Especially for my lovely wife Klara, who ended up having to singlehandedly juggle two children too often and who, more than once, expressed her desire to purchase a copy of this book and burn it.

 
 --Marcus Lagergren