Maximizing Performance and Scalability with IBM WebSphere

Maximizing Performance Scalability with IBM WebSphere teaches the reader real world performance management methodologies and best practices with a bent toward an IBM WebSphere J2EE environment. It will enable the reader to match the benefits of WebSphere optimization and tuning to business benefits and describes best practice J2EE development topics that have direct impact on IBM WebSphere capacity and performance management. Neat also describes how to proactively manage the performance of an IBM WebSphere v4 or v5 platform, and explains how to tune WebSphere with performance and robustness in mind. Additionally, the reader will learn how to develop custom IBM WebSphere performance monitoring and management tools to track and plot potential bottlenecks and pending performance issues before they cause impact. TOC:Overview of IBM WebSphere 4 and 5; The Need for Performance; WebSphere 4 & 5 Component Architecture; WebSphere Infrastructure Design; WebSphere Platform and Infrastructure Design; WebSphere Deployment and Network Architectures; WebSphere Operating System Kernel Tuning; WebSphere EJB Container Performance; WebSphere HTTP / Web Container Performance; WebSphere Admin and Management Performance Optimization; WebSphere Database Performance Optimization - Oracle; WebSphere Database Performance Optimization - DB2; WebSphere Repository Performance Optimization; Network / IP Performance Optimization; JVMPI Overview.

1 The Need for Performance.- 2 WebSphere Scalability and Availability.- 3 WebSphere 4 and 5 Component Architectures.- 4 WebSphere Infrastructure Design.- 5 WebSphere Deployment and Network Architecture.- 6 WebSphere Platform Performance, Tuning, and Optimization.- 7 WebSphere Failover and High Availability Considerations.- 8 External WebSphere System Availability.- 9 WebSphere EJB and Web Container Performance.- 10 Developing High-Performance WebSphere Applications.- 11 WebSphere Database Performance and Optimization.- 12 Legacy Integration: Performance Optimization.- 13 Performance Management Tooling.- 14 Profiling and Benchmarking WebSphere.

Adam G. Neat is a consulting manager for one of the world's leading management and IT consultancy firms. He is the Australian and New Zealand e-infrastructure lead, covering technical architectures such as host systems, storage systems, and operating systems (and all things in between), within the communications and technology industry. He is recognized as a global expert in infrastructure architectures, and he provides specialty expertise in technical architectures covering technologies such as J2EE/Java, various forms of middleware (MQ, CORBA, etc), large-scale systems, application design and architecture, and the deployment, configuration, and management of enterprise application servers such as IBM's WebSphere, BEA's WebLogic, and Sun's SunOne Application Server. Adam is also heavily involved in the integration and production optimization of large-scale UNIX-based systems and databases such as DB2 and Oracle. Adam is a member of the Australian Institute of Management and holds a degree in computing systems from Monash University.

This book provides you with the guidance and solutions for working through the complexities of application and platform performance management and scalability planning, specifically within an IBM WebSphere environment.