Eye on Performance: Profiling on the Edge

By Jack Shirazi & Kirk Pepperdine
2005-04-21


Resources
• Using profilers properly is not as easy as you may think. That's one of the reasons the authors offer hands-on training courses that show you which profilers are available and how to use them. Check the available training courses page at JavaPerformanceTuning.com for more information.

• Read a review of Java Application Performance Management tools, including a list of commercial profilers.

• Get more information about the heapprofile profiler.

• Dr. Heinz Kabutz explains how to track stack traces using Java cod from wherever you want in your program.

• Here's a comprehensive list of profilers, both open source and commercial.

• Find profiling performance tips at the authors' Web site.
• Read all about performance tuning in Java Performance Tuning, 2nd Edition (O'Reilly 2003) by Jack Shirazi.

• The Performance Inspector is a suite of performance-management tools for Linux.

• These training courses show you which profilers are available and how to use them, using hands-on tuning exercises.

• This article on JVMPI details the Java platform's interface with profiling tools.

• WebSphere Studio integrates J2EE profiling into the development environment.

• Find hundreds of articles about every aspect of Java programming in the developerWorks Java technology zone.

• Visit the Developer Bookstore for a comprehensive listing of technical books, including hundreds of Java-related titles.

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Tutorial Pages:
» What do you do When Your Tools are Too Fat?
» A Trip to the Fat Farm
» Back to the Beginning
» Simple But Ugly
» The Final Word
» Resources


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