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Performance Analysis for Java(TM) Websites
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by Stacy Joines, Ruth Willenborg, and Ken Hygh
Sales Rank: 256454
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Discount: 26 %
$29.25
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Paperback: 464 pages
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional September 20, 2002
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0201844540
ISBN-13: 978-0201844542
Product Dimensions:
9.2 x 7.4 x 1.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
Book Info
A timely guide for enterprise website developers and QA teams. Authors combine their experience analyzing and improving hundreds of websites and show how to conduct an effective performance analysis. Softcover.
Back Cover Copy
How well a Web site performs while receiving heavy user traffic is an essential factor in an organization's overall success. How can you be sure your site will hold up under pressure?
Performance Analysis for Java™ Web Sites is an information-packed guide to maximizing the performance of Java-based Web sites. It approaches these sites as systems, and considers how the various components involved, such as networks, Java™ Virtual Machines, and backend systems, potentially impact overall performance. This book provides detailed best practices for designing and developing high-performance Java Web applications, and instructions for building and executing relevant performance tests to gauge your site's ability to handle customer traffic. Also included is information on how to use the results of performance testing to generate accurate capacity plans.
Readers will find easy-to-understand explanations of fundamental performance principles and terminology. The book runs through performance profiles for common types of Web sites, including e-commerce, B2B, financial, and information exchange. Numerous case studies illustrate important ideas and techniques. Practical throughout, the book also offers a discussion on selecting the right test tools and troubleshooting common bottlenecks frequently revealed by testing.
Other specific topics include: Performance best practices for servlets, JavaServer Pages™, and Enterprise JavaBeans™ The impact of servlets, threads, and queuing on performance The frozen Web site danger Java™ Virtual Machine garbage collection and multithreading issues The performance impact of routers, firewalls, proxy servers, and NICs Test scenario and script building Test execution and monitoring, including potential pitfalls Tuning the Web site environment Component monitoring (servers, Java™ Virtual Machines, and networks) Symptoms and solutions of common bottleneck issues Analysis and review of performance test results
Performance Analysis for Java™ Web Sites not only provides clear explanations and expert practical guidance, it also serves as a reference, with extensive appendixes that include worksheets for capacity planning, checklists to help you prepare for different stages of performance testing, and a list of performance-test tool vendors.
0201844540B08142002
Customer Reviews & Comments
The team of authors who wrote this book have two things going for them - in-depth knowledge of performance analysis, and, most importantly, the ability to impart that knowledge in a crystal clear manner. I like the way this book starts out, showing the contrast between a bricks & mortar store and its online equivalent. This introduces the basics - throughput, transaction, page and user rates, response times and states. More than an easy to follow introduction, it contains all of the key elements of performance analysis, doled out in easy to understand chunks, and sets the stage for the rest of the book. Every facet of a typical environment is covered, including Java server performance factors, external and internal factors related to networking, load balancers, protocol behavior, and Java internals. The chapter on performance profiles of common web sites is especially useful. Different site types are characterized in a set format that shows caching potential (of the site type), any special considerations, and specific performance testing considerations. This allows you to go directly to the type of site you are going to test, get the relevant information, then proceed to conduct the testing, which is covered in subsequent chapters. The chapters on testing begin by showing how to develop the test plan, associated test scripts, and select the right tools to support the testing. The areas covered in these chapters are comprehensive. Actual test execution and results analysis are covered in equal detail, using examples and scenarios. One especially useful chapter is 13, Common Bottleneck Symptoms, which is useful to track the cause of observed results that do not match expected ones during testing. This book goes beyond testing, though - it also covers capacity and performance planning, which is normally a discipline onto itself. Again, excellent advice and coverage of key points. The appendices are an invaluable collection of templates, worksheets and checklists. I cannot recommend this book highly enough. It exemplifies top notch writing, is well illustrated, and is technically accurate, and based on proven approaches.
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