Online resources

These Web sites and URLs are also relevant as further information sources:

- WAS InfoCenter 

http://www.ibm.com/software/webservers/appserv/infocenter.html

- Edge Components InfoCenter 

http://www.ibm.com/software/webservers/appserv/ecinfocenter.html

- IBM WAS 

http://www.ibm.com/software/webservers/appserv

- IBM WAS hardware and software requirements 

http://www.ibm.com/software/webservers/appserv/doc/latest/prereq.html

- IBM WAS support pate 

http://www.ibm.com/software/webservers/appserv/was/support/

- IBM WebSphere Edge Server 

http://www.ibm.com/software/webservers/edgeServer

- IBM DB2 UDB hardware and software requirements 

http://www.ibm.com/software/data/db2/udb/sysreqs.html

- HTTP server configuration at IBM HTTP Server InfoCenter 

http://www.ibm.com/software/webservers/httpservers/library.html

- IBM WAS Library 

http://www.ibm.com/software/webservers/appserv/library/index.html

- WAS Development white papers 

http://www.ibm.com/software/webservers/appserv/whitepapers.html

- WAS zone at WebSphere Developer Domain 

http://www7b.boulder.ibm.com/wsdd/zones/was/

- WebSphere performance Web site, including Trade 6 code download 

http://www.ibm.com/software/webservers/appserv/was/performance.html

- IBM ~ iSeries performance documents 

http://www.ibm.com/servers/eServer/iseries/software/websphere/wsappserver/p
roduct/PerformanceConsiderations.html

- GUI tool for building cache policy files 

http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/cachepolicyeditor

- WebSphere Developer Domain 

http://www.software.ibm.com/wsdd/

- IBM developerWorks 

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/

- IBM alphaWorks 

http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com

- Page Detailer information and download 

http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/pagedetailer

- IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Web Infrastructure 

http://www.ibm.com/software/tivoli/products/monitor-web/

- IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Transaction Performance 

http://www.ibm.com/software/tivoli/products/monitor-transaction/

- List of IBM's Business Partners that offer performance monitoring tools compliant with WAS 

http://www.ibm.com/software/webservers/pw/dhtml/wsperformance/performance_b
psolutions.html

- Java Performance Tuning Web site 

http://www.javaperformancetuning.com/

- Design for Scalability - An Update 

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/library/techarticles/hvws/scala
bility.html

- Technote TIPS0223 (WAS V5: Separating Static and Dynamic Web Content): 

http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/RedbookAbstracts/tips0223.html
?Open

- Caching Technologies for Web Applications 

http://www.almaden.ibm.com/u/mohan/

- Exploiting Dynamic Caching in WAS 5.0, Part 1 & 2 

http://www.e-promag.com/eparchive//index.cfm?fuseaction=viewarticle&Content
ID=3623&publicationid=19&PageView=Search&channel=2

http://www.e-promag.com/eparchive//index.cfm?fuseaction=viewarticle&Content
ID=4409&publicationid=19&PageView=Search&channel=2

- Monitor Performance with WebSphere 

http://www.e-promag.com/eparchive//index.cfm?fuseaction=viewarticle&Content
ID=1492&publicationid=13&PageView=Search&channel=2

- Hints on Running a High-Performance Web Server - Tuning IBM IHS 

http://www.ibm.com/software/webservers/httpservers/doc/v136/misc/perf.html

- Enhancements and Changes in J2SE 1.4.1 Platform 

http://java.sun.com/products/archive/j2se/1.4.1_07/changes.html

- Reducing Garbage Collection Times and Sizing Memory 

http://developers.sun.com/techtopics/mobility/midp/articles/garbage/

- Improving Java Application Performance and Scalability by Reducing Garbage Collection Times and Sizing Memory Using JDK 1.4.1 

http://developers.sun.com/techtopics/mobility/midp/articles/garbagecollecti
on2/

- Fine-tuning Java garbage collection performance 

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/ibm/library/i-gctroub/

- Garbage collection in the 1.4.1 JVM 

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-jtp11253/

- A brief history of garbage collection 

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-jtp10283/

- Sensible Sanitation: Understanding the IBM Java Garbage Collection, Parts 1 and 2 

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/ibm/library/i-garbage1/

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/ibm/library/i-garbage2/

- Sensible Sanitation: Understanding the IBM Java Garbage Collection Part 3: verbosegc and command-line parameters 

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/i-garbage3.html

- Mash that trash - Incremental compaction in the IBM JDK Garbage Collector 

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/ibm/library/i-incrcomp/

- J2EE Application Development: One or many applications per appserver? 

http://www.software.ibm.com/wsdd/techjournal/0211_alcott/alcott.html

- Handling Static content in WAS 

http://www.software.ibm.com/wsdd/techjournal/0211_brown/brown.html

- JavaServer Pages 2.0 Specification 

http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/final/jsr152/index.html

- Struts, an open-source MVC implementation 

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/ibm/library/j-struts/

- Struts home page 

http://struts.apache.org/

- Integrating Struts, Tiles, and JavaServer Faces 

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-integrate/

- New to SOA and Web services 

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/newto/index.html

- Developing and Deploying Command Caching with WebSphere Studio V5 

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/registered/tutorials/0306_mcgui
nnes/mcguinnes.html

- JSR 235: Service Data Objects 

http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=235

- Introduction to Service Data Objects 

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-sdo/

- Log4J 

http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j/

- IBM WebSphere Developer Technical Journal: Writing PMI applications using the JMX interface 

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/techjournal/0402_qiao/0402_qiao
.html

- IBM WebSphere Developer Technical Journal: Writing a Performance Monitoring Tool Using WAS's Performance Monitoring Infrastructure API 

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/techjournal/0202_rangaswamy/ran
gaswamy.html

- WebSphere Performance Diagnostics - Going beyond the Metrics 

http://www.sys-con.com/websphere/article.cfm?id=207

- Design for Performance: Analysis of Download Times for Page Elements Suggests Ways to Optimize 

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/library/techarticles/hvws/perfo
rm.html

- Implementing a Highly Available Infrastructure for WAS ND, V5.0 without Clustering 

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/apps/transform.wss?URL=/developerworks/we
bsphere/library/techarticles/0304_alcott/alcott.xml&xslURL=/developerworks/
websphere/xsl/document.xsl&format=one-column

- Server Clusters For High Availability in WAS ND Edition 5.0 

http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27002473

- JMS Application Architectures 

http://www.theServerside.com/articles/article.tss?l=JMSArchitecture

- JMS 1.1 simplifies messaging with unified domains", found at: 

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-jms11/

- JMS Topologies and Configurations with WAS and WebSphere Studio V5 

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/library/techarticles/0310_barci
a/barcia.html

- Learning About JMS Messages 

http://www.htmltr.com/articles/article.asp?p=170722

- Supportpacs about JMS performance with WebSphere MQ 

http://www.ibm.com/software/integration/support/supportpacs/product.html

http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=203&uid=swg24006854&loc=en_US&cs=
utf-8&lang=en

http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=203&uid=swg24006902&loc=en_US&cs=
utf-8&lang=en

- J2EE Connector Architecture 

http://java.sun.com/j2ee/connector/download.html

- Java Security, JAAS, JCE and JSSE 

http://java.sun.com/security

- Apache Software Foundation 

http://www.apache.org

- Apache HTTP Server source-code 

http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi

- Apache 2.0 Feature list 

http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/new_features_2_0.html

- Apache HTTP Server documentation 

http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mpm.html

- Akamai 

http://www.akamai.com

- Speedera 

http://www.speedera.com

- Network Appliance 

http://www.netapp.com

- Blue Coat 

http://www.bluecoat.com

- Cisco Cache Engine 

http://www.cisco.com

- Edge Side Include (ESI) 

http://www.esi.org

- Sun Solaris performance information 

http://www.sean.de/Solaris/soltune.html

- IBM Rational SuiteŽ TestStudioŽ 

http://www.ibm.com/software/awdtools/suite/

- Rational Performance Tester 

http://www.ibm.com/software/awdtools/tester/performance/

- ApacheBench manual and list of options 

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/programs/ab.html

- Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) version 2.5 download 

http://microsoft.com/data/download.htm

- OpenSTA V1.4.2 

http://www.opensta.org/download.html

- OpenSTA community site 

http://portal.opensta.org/

- OpenSTA sourcecode 

http://opensta.sourceforge.net/

- JMeter, Open Source software from the Apache Software Foundation 

http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/

- TestMaker and TestNetwork, from PushToTest 

http://www.pushtotest.com/

- Grinder 

http://grinder.sourceforge.net

- LoadRunner from Mercury Interactive 

http://www.mercury.com/us/products/performance-center/loadrunner/

- Segue SilkPerformer 

http://www.segue.com/products/load-stress-performance-testing/

- WebLOAD from Radview 

http://www.radview.com/products/WebLOAD.asp

- WebStone from Mindcraft 

http://www.mindcraft.com/webstone/

- OpenLoad from Opendemand Systems 

http://www.opendemand.com/openload/

- Implementing a Highly Available Infrastructure for WAS ND, V5.0 without Clustering 

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/library/techarticles/0304_alcot
t/alcott.html

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