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WildFly Performance Tuning - Third Edition

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WildFly Performance Tuning

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Overview of this book

Packed with practical examples, this book looks at a different aspect of performance tuning in each chapter and shows you how to apply them to their existing Java applications. Anyone with an interest in learning more and improving the performance of Java-based technology in general, all the way to WildFly in particular, will find this book useful.

Preface

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

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1. The Science of Performance Tuning

1. The Science of Performance Tuning

Performance

Scalability

Performance tuning anti-patterns

Software development and quality assurance

Software development with performance focus

The iterative performance-tuning process

The environment of performance tests

The software life cycle

Tuning an enterprise stack

Summary

2. Tools of the Tuning Trade

2. Tools of the Tuning Trade

The key features of performance tuning

Profiling

Profiling and sampling

VisualVM

Monitoring

OS tools

WildFly tools

Generating load

Apache JMeter

Summary

3. Tuning the Java Virtual Machine

3. Tuning the Java Virtual Machine

JVM

JVM memory areas

GC

JVM memory management with the GC

Configuring the JVM

Large objects

Large memory pages

The java.lang.OutOfMemoryError error

Memory leaks

Types of GC strategies

Which collector to use

Setting VM parameters in WildFly

Having the relevant information available

VM parameters in production

Using tools

VM and GC stability

Summary

4. Tuning WildFly

4. Tuning WildFly

WildFly's history

WildFly's architecture

Various subsystem configurations

Logging

Summary

5. EJB Tuning in WildFly

5. EJB Tuning in WildFly

The history of EJBs

The different types of EJBs

Performance tuning EJBs in WildFly

Summary

6. Tuning the Persistence Layer

6. Tuning the Persistence Layer

Designing a good database

Tuning the Java Database Connectivity API

Tuning JPA and Hibernate

Summary

7. Tuning the Web Container in WildFly

7. Tuning the Web Container in WildFly

Enter Undertow

Using XNIO

Tuning Undertow

Tuning the servlet container and JSP compilation

Using Apache as a frontend

Summary

8. Tuning Web Applications and Services

8. Tuning Web Applications and Services

Web applications

Services

Summary

9. JMS and HornetQ

9. JMS and HornetQ

Introducing JMS

The message and its optimizations

Tuning the session

Tuning MessageProducer

Optimizing HornetQ

Summary

10. WildFly Clustering

10. WildFly Clustering

Cluster

Load balancing

Replication

Failover, failback, and session state

High Availability

The real need of clustering

A single point of failure

WildFly clustering basics

Clustering in Java EE and WildFly

Summary

Index

Index

Large objects

When designing and implementing an application, it is worth remembering to avoid allocating very large objects that are kept alive for a long time. The problems with these objects are that they have the potential to severely fragment the heap. Despite good GC strategies and improved defragmentation techniques, consequences can, in the end, be catastrophic for JVM, often in the shape of a java.lang.OutOfMemoryError error.

Large objects that have a short lifespan will be collected relatively fast and won't cause many problems. If these large objects are also allocated at the same time, they can be stored as continuous memory space, fragmentation can be kept to a minimum. They are also likely to be collected at the same time.

Another good solution is to chop the large objects up in to smaller ones, as this will make their long lifespan less cumbersome for the memory handling of JVM. Should none of these techniques be an option, the solution of enabling large memory pages might do...

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