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14 articles tagged Performance Tuning.

Troubleshooting Deadlock Conditions With Monitor Locks In Java Virtual Machines

  • Concurrency
  • JVM Internals
  • Performance Tuning

In this article, I wanted to present a brief tutorial regarding troubleshooting deadlock conditions in JVMs. Before one can troubleshoot a deadlock condition, one needs to understand what it is; to this end, I have written a simple Java program called DeadLock.java, which is guaranteed to very…

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EJB vs. Web Services

  • J2EE / Jakarta EE
  • JBoss
  • Performance Tuning

This article is by no means an exhaustive discussion on the subject of Web Services and EJBs. But, I have often found many of the points I bring up here missing from meaningful debate. Researching this article also gave me an opportunity to go over material I've been wanting to read for a while now.

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Performance Tuning In Industry

  • J2EE / Jakarta EE
  • Performance Tuning
  • Operating Systems

IT Professionals face an up hill battle in the realm of performance tuning. First, management must be convinced that time needs to be set aside for it. Next, the skill sets to successfully move through the performance tuning life cycle must be present. Then, the tools to effectively identify issues…

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Masters Project Defense

  • J2EE / Jakarta EE
  • JBoss
  • Performance Tuning

On November 29, 2007, I gave my Masters Project Defense before Dr. Chris Gill, Dr. Cindy Grimm, and Dr. Roger Chamberlain. This is the presentation. I’m posting it here because it involved analyzing low-level details of a Sun JVM running JBoss 3.x.

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