Since the language was first released, performance has always a concern for Java applications. The JVM went through years of being considered "too slow", yet despite the early critics Java...
3 replies - 4566 views - 01/10/12 by James Sugrue in Book Reviews
Our past experience, which is supported by a quick search on Google and Stackoverflow, shows that the first set of tools people tend to jump to when solving memory problems in production is memory profilers. Among them, VisualVM, YourKit and JProbe seem to be...
2 replies - 2095 views - 01/07/12 by Nikita Salnikov... in Articles
UpdateAs there have been several comments about my microbenchmark, I feel in a position to give a common reply. Thank you for pointing out flaws in my test implementation. This time I used snippet from Maciej Gorączka to illustrate the pitfalls of...
14 replies - 1968 views - 10/04/11 by Wojciech Kudla in Articles
YourKit, LLC is glad to announce immediate availability of YourKit Java Profiler 10
0 replies - 701 views - 09/26/11 by Vladimir Kondratyev in Announcements
In this article I would like to elaborate on the garbage collection
specifics of Oracle's JRockit JVM. Recently JRockit has been made free for use
and many people may consider using it instead of another widely popular Oracle
JVM - HotSpot (former Sun's JVM)....
2 replies - 6138 views - 07/12/11 by Alexey Ragozin in Articles
VisualVM 1.3.2 has been released at http://visualvm.java.net. This is a maintenance release which addresses several JDK 7-specific bugs and updates links to new project pages migrated from https://visualvm.dev.java.net.
0 replies - 1055 views - 03/07/11 by Jiri Sedlacek in Announcements
We have
published the last version of DEX 4.0 as an evaluation version to download.
0 replies - 560 views - 01/24/11 by Damaris Coll in Announcements
Sparsity Technologies is proud to announce the new release 4.0 of DEX. Altogether with the characteristics of former versions, DEX 4.0 brings more performance to graph databases. Use DEX to make your queries lots of time faster and analyze information that...
0 replies - 911 views - 12/16/10 by Damaris Coll in Announcements
This article presents a new open source database performance
benchmark for JPA that covers Hibernate, EclipseLink, DataNucleus,
OpenJPA and ObjectDB.
My name is Ilan Kirsh and I am the founder of ObjectDB Software, a provider of
ObjectDB,
a high...
17 replies - 8100 views - 11/10/10 by Ilan Kirsh in Articles
VisualVM 1.3 has just been released and is now available for download at https://visualvm.dev.java.net!
The most significant new features in this release include the incorporation of the Sampler plugin into the core tool,
the ability to define custom...
1 replies - 6811 views - 07/26/10 by Jiri Sedlacek in Announcements
More and
more Internet users buy in web shops these days. Research shows that the part
of European Internet users that buys on-line has grown from 40% in 2004 to 84%
in 2008. Additionally, the large web retailers in my country saw their
revenue grow in 2009...
1 replies - 14038 views - 05/27/10 by Jeroen Borgers in Articles
In one of my previous articles at Javalobby, I explained why an official JBoss AS release did not work on any JVM other than Sun(-Oracle) HotSpot. The root cause was (unintended) reliance on Java implementation features not enforced by the Java spec. This...
1 replies - 4006 views - 05/23/10 by Vitaly Mikheev in Articles
YourKit, LLC is glad to announce immediate availability of YourKit Java Profiler 9.0It can be downloaded at http://www.yourkit.com/download/MOST NOTABLE CHANGES AND NEW FEATURES:======================================NEW FEATURE: PROBES: - Get almost...
0 replies - 1508 views - 05/17/10 by Vladimir Kondratyev in Announcements
Given Ajax applications' event driven nature, it would be beneficial if developers could identify the time consuming event handlers and make the necessary performance tuning accordingly. Previous efforts, here and here, on ZK performance monitors have been...
0 replies - 5344 views - 04/20/10 by Lance Lu in Articles
Java VisualVM, the JDK monitoring and troubleshooting tool, has been upgraded to version 1.2.1 in the recently released JDK 6 Update 18 (see the JDK Release Notes). This is a major VisualVM update introducing a lot of new features and improvements since JDK 6...
2 replies - 2040 views - 01/14/10 by Jiri Sedlacek in Announcements
