Coordination Organizations Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems II or Pro Java EE 5 Performance Management and Optimization

Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems II: AAMAS 2006 and ECAI 2006 International Workshops, COIN 2006 Hakodate, Japan, May 9, 2006 Riva del Garda, Italy, August 28, 2006 Revised Selected Papers

Author: Pablo Noriega

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the International Workshop on Coordination, Organization, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems, COIN 2006, held as two events at AAMAS 2006, the 5th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems in Hakodate, Japan, and ECAI 2006, the 17th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Riva del Garda, Italy.

This volume is the second in a series focussing on issues in Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms (COIN) in multi-agent systems. The 23 papers in this volume are extended, revised versions of papers presented at the two workshops that were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement. The papers are organized in topical sections on modelling and analyzing organizations, modelling and analyzing institutions, normative models and issues, norm evolution and dynamics, as well as autonomy, coordination and social order.

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Pro Java EE 5 Performance Management and Optimization

Author: Steven Haines

Pro Java EE 5 Performance Management and Optimization features proven methodology to guarantee top-performing Java EE 5 applications, and explains how to measure performance in your specific environment. The book also details performance integration points throughout the development and deployment lifecycles that are crucial for application success.

For QA and preproduction stages, this book guides you through testing and optimally deploying your Java EE 5 applications, with a focus on assessing capacity and discovering saturation points. It defines the concept and application of wait-based tuning--one of the most effective approaches to application server tuning.

The book also helps you assess and improve the health of your applications upon deployment. The topics covered include trending, forecasting, and capacity assessing and planning. When production issues arise, you'll be armed with troubleshooting methodology and solutions to common problems that have been observed in real-world environments. This book even guides you through the creation of a formal Java EE 5 Performance Management Plan--customized to your environment to help you interpret and react to changing trends in usage patterns.

Table of Contents:

Ch. 1	An introduction to application performance management	3
Ch. 2	Quantifying performance	25
Ch. 3	Performance measurements	47
Ch. 4	Implementing performance measurements	73
Ch. 5	Performance through the application development life cycle	125
Ch. 6	Performance tuning methodology	155
Ch. 7	Tuning an application server	177
Ch. 8	High-performance deployments	207
Ch. 9	Performance and scalability testing	223
Ch. 10	Java EE performance assessment	255
Ch. 11	Production troubleshooting methodology	299
Ch. 12	Trending, forecasting, and capacity planning	317
Ch. 13	Assembling a performance management plan	337
Ch. 14	Solving common Java EE performance problems	351
Ch. 15	Next steps	373