Packed with practical examples, this book looks at a different aspect of performance tuning in each chapter and shows the reader how to apply them to their existing Java applications. Written to version 5.1, this book also has information about the upcoming 6.0 release and how you can upgrade your existing applications. This book is for Java architects who design and configure Enterprise applications. It is great for Java developers who want to get into the inner details of the application server and of the correct tuning methodology. Application testers will also find this book useful as they will learn how to monitor the performance of the middleware with the correct instruments.
About author
Francesco Marchioni is a Sun Certified Enterprise Architect employed by an Italian company based in Rome. He started learning Java in 1997 and since then he has followed the path to the newest Application Program Interfaces released by Sun. Since 2000, he has joined the JBoss Community when the application server was running release 2.X.
He has spent many years as a software consultant, where he has created many successful software migrations from vendor platforms to the open source products like JBoss AS, fulfilling the tight budget requirements of current times.
In the past five years he has started authoring technical articles for O'Reilly Media and running an IT portal focused on JBoss products (http://www.mastertheboss.com). In December 2009, he published the title, JBoss AS 5 Development, which describes how to create and deploy Java Enterprise applications on JBoss AS—http://www.packtpub.com/jboss-as-5-development/book.