Performance

JProfiler 6.0: An Overview with Ingo Kegel

The JProfiler, or "Java Profiler", has many useful features for Java developers.  Efficient profiling is paramount in application performance...

8 replies - 2003 views - 11/13/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Application Clustering For Scalability and High Availability

Application clustering is a sub-topic of “Parallel Computing”. Today many types of software support parallel computing in some form. Why do we need...

3 replies - 2276 views - 10/13/09 by Ibrahim in News

Terracotta Heats Up Competition in Distributed Caching

Terracotta announced today the immediate release of "Terracotta for Caching," which integrates Ehcache and Terracotta.  For Terracotta, this was the...

3 replies - 3295 views - 10/06/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Performance Considerations in Distributed Applications

Distribution and Communication between applications and services is a central concept in modern application architectures. In order to profit from distribution...

1 replies - 3486 views - 09/30/09 by AloisReitbauer in News

Improve Application Responsiveness With Terracotta for Hibernate

Terracotta released version 3.1 today, which includes Terracotta for Hibernate, a plug-in distributed cache for the Hibernate frame. Along with last months...

0 replies - 2399 views - 09/15/09 by James Sugrue in News

JPA and First Tier Application Performance Problems

I want to write about JPA, performance, caching and related things. Though it wont be very well organized, it may come useful for new JPA developers. Recently...

3 replies - 2647 views - 09/07/09 by Masoud Kalali in Articles

Java Performance Tuning, Profiling, and Memory Management

Java application performance is an abstract word until you face its real implications. It may vary depending on your interpretation of the word 'performance'....

11 replies - 15485 views - 09/01/09 by vikaswaters in Articles

Some Aspects of JVM Tuning in Virtual Environments

I have a dream... No, I will not speak here about jobs and freedom. I have a dream that I have been no more called from operation team. I want to hear nothing...

6 replies - 3201 views - 08/27/09 by maksymov in Articles

Perforce Releases Java SCM Plug-In for Eclipse

Perforce Software announced the release of a pure Java version of its Perforce Plug-in for Eclipse. With this release, developers can employ Perforce version...

0 replies - 1001 views - 08/18/09 by CodeJustin in Announcements

Core Java Concurrency Refcard: Meet the Author

Last week we released our Core Java Concurrency Refcard, an indispensable reference for the performance-conscious Java developer.

1 replies - 2730 views - 07/15/09 by James Sugrue in Articles

ClassLoaderLocal: How to Avoid ClassLoader Leaks on Application Redeploy

"OutOfMemoryError: PermGen" is a very common message to see after a few redeploys. The reason why it's so common is that it's amazingly easy to leak...

8 replies - 4045 views - 06/19/09 by Jevgeni Kabanov in Articles

Hibernate Performance Tuning

Hibernate is a powerful, high performance object/relational persistence and query service. Hibernate lets you develop persistent classes following...

7 replies - 14875 views - 06/10/09 by sendon1982 in Articles

Escape Analysis in Java 6 Update 14 - Some Informal Benchmarks

Sun recently released update 14 of the Java 6 JDK and JRE.  As well as the usual collection of bug fixes, this release includes some experimental new features...

6 replies - 5492 views - 06/02/09 by Dan Dyer in Articles

The Best Kept Secret in the JDK: VisualVM

It's amazing the things that are right in front of you that you don't realise. VisualVM is probably the best example of this in the Java community. Everytime...

24 replies - 42422 views - 05/28/09 by James Sugrue in Articles

Microbenchmarking Java - Compare Algorithms

There are a lot of microbenchmark tips out pn the internet. The intent of them differs from author to author.Today I want to show how you could compare e.g....

4 replies - 1681 views - 05/22/09 by Peter Karich in Articles