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kjkoster
09-12-2008, 13:55
Dear All,

Had another presentation from Kirk Pepperdine, this time he teamed up with Holly Cummins (http://www.devoxx.com/display/JV08/Holly+Cummins).

Cool tools and cool methods. I believe that if you have performance problems, you should really try to apply Kirk's methods. They are described in the presentation. I'm sure it will be on-line at some point.

Holly presented IBM's Health Center (http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/tools/index.html). That is the bee's knees for performance monitoring in production. It does method level profiling, in production, with negligible overhead. It's specific to IBM's JVM, but I would consider switching just for Health Center.

I learned a lot (again) about performance tuning Java applications. Knowledge that will sure come in handy as Java-monitor grows. :-)

Kees Jan