The authors present a guide to the complexity of running business codes on a massive system with a large, heterogeneous user population. They explore performance issues and offer instruction on designing a framework suitable to a growing business. They outline general concepts and offer specific suggestions, illustrated with actual code. Technologies discussed include JVM/JIT, SanFrancisco, Enterprise JavaBeans, CORBA, and Jini connection technology. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Steven L. Halter and Steven J. Munroe are both leaders on IBM's SanFrancisco Project, the world's largest and most comprehensive study of Java and performance in business development. Steven L. Halter is an expert in object persistence and object infrastructures, while Steven J. Munroe's background is in system architecture and design. Between them they hold sixteen U.S. patents.