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| About the Author | |
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| About the Technical Reviewer | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Need for Performance | |
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| Quantifying Performance | |
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| Managing Performance | |
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| What Constitutes a Performance Improvement? | |
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| Measuring Business Improvements | |
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| TCO and ROI Equal TCI: Total Cost of Investment | |
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| Managing Performance: A Proven Methodology | |
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| Summary | |
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| WebSphere Scalability and Availability | |
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| Scalability and Availability: A Primer | |
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| Costs of Availability, Performance, and Scalability | |
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| Summary | |
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| WebSphere 4 and 5 Component Architectures | |
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| Component Architecture Overview | |
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| Comparing the Versions | |
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| Summary | |
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| WebSphere Infrastructure Design | |
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| Examining the x86/IA-64/x86-64 Platform (Intel and AMD) | |
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| Examining the SPARC RISC Platform (Sun Microsystems) | |
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| Examining the Power4 Platform (IBM) | |
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| Comparing Disk Systems | |
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| Exploring Advanced Features | |
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| Summary | |
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| WebSphere Deployment and Network Architecture | |
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| Overview of Key Components | |
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| Topological Architecture | |
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| WebSphere Topological Architecture Blueprints | |
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| Summary | |
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| WebSphere Platform Performance, Tuning, and Optimization | |
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| The Need for Speed | |
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| Performance Testing a Platform | |
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| Optimization and Tuning Checklist | |
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| Summary | |
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| WebSphere Failover and High Availability Considerations | |
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| WebSphere High Availability and Failover Fundamentals | |
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| Web Server Failover and High Availability | |
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| Web Container Failover and High Availability | |
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| EJB Container Failover and High Availability | |
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| Summary | |
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| External WebSphere System Availability | |
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| WebSphere's Reliance on Available External Systems | |
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| LDAP Server Availability | |
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| NFS Server Availability | |
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| Network Infrastructure Availability | |
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| Database Server Failover | |
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| Summary | |
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| WebSphere EJB and Web Container Performance | |
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| The Container: An Overview | |
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| What Do Containers Do? | |
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| Tuning and Optimization | |
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| Summary | |
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| Developing High-Performance WebSphere Applications | |
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| The Top 20 List of Performance Development Considerations | |
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| Web Tier Performance | |
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| Business Tier Performance | |
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| Data Tier Performance | |
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| Summary | |
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| WebSphere Database Performance and Optimization | |
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| WebSphere Database Overview | |
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| Databases Supported | |
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| J2EE Database Integration | |
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| WebSphere Database Tuning | |
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| WebSphere Connection Pool Manager | |
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| Summary | |
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| Legacy Integration: Performance Optimization | |
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| Legacy Integration: What Is It? | |
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| Design Considerations for Legacy Integration | |
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| Summary | |
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| Performance Management Tooling | |
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| Overview of Performance Tooling | |
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| Monitoring System Utilization | |
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| Monitoring Disk I/O | |
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| Monitoring Network Performance | |
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| Monitoring WebSphere Application Performance | |
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| Summary | |
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| Profiling and Benchmarking WebSphere | |
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| Profiling and Benchmarking, Revisited | |
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| Why Profile and Benchmark? | |
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| A Practical Approach to Profiling | |
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| Tools Available | |
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| Summary | |
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| Index | |