J2EE Performance Testing with BEA WebLogic Server

Explains how to evaluate the performance of complete J2EE applications, explores performance issues of popular J2EE APIs, provides a methodology, and offers a benchmark for judging J2EE performance.

Peter Zadrozny is the Chief Technologist for BEA Systems responsible for Europe, Middle East and Africa. Peter is constantly travelling his region, meeting with prospects and customers using BEA WebLogic Server and helping them to design solutions to their business challenges. Peter also spends a fair amount of time helping BEA customers fine tune and improve the performance of their WebLogic Server based applications. Peter is the co-author of 'Java 2 Enterprise Edition with BEA WebLogic Server' (Wrox Press, ISBN: 1861002998).

Phil Aston is a senior consultant with the Professional Services organisation of BEA Systems in the UK. In this capacity, Phil assists BEA customers with the detailed architecture design, proofs of concept and implementation of applications using J2EE technology. In his spare time Phil has taken the role of lead developer responsible for 'The Grinder', a Java load-testing tool.