JBoss AS 5 Performance Tuning - Build faster, more efficient enterprise Java applications

A practical guide to configure & develop lightning fast applications on JBoss AS and its embedded web server, Apache Tomcat.

What you will learn from this book:
- Understand the correct tuning methodology and how it fits into the overall software development cycle;
- Install & configure the instruments for tuning, including VisualVM, JMeter, Eclipse TPTP Platform, and basic O/S tools;
- Improve the performance of your application by properly configuring the JVM heap & the garbage collector knobs;
- Efficiently configure the JBoss System Thread Pool, the Connection Pool, and the Logging Service;
- Tune the middleware services including EJB tuning and JMS tuning;
- The principles of good database design and core concepts about Java Persistence API with special focus on JBoss's implementation (Hibernate);
- Set up the JBoss Clustering service both as a standalone solution and integrated with Apache Web server;
- Develop faster web applications by tuning the JSF & RichFaces component libraries.