Application performance measurement

News - Here at TheServerSide.com, we've been providing some very dedicated coverage to the new features of Java 7, with a look at tackling some of the new Java 7 APIs like the new File I/O (NIO.2) and concurrency libraries with tutorials and learning guides in...

News - In order to obtain the certified architect position from Oracle, attending and passing a training course is now required. But what about the Java Professional and Java Associate designations, OCPJP and OCAJP for Java 7?

News - The OCP (Oracle Certified Professional) Java 7 certification (OCAJP and OCPJP), which replaced the SCJP certification, will now require you to pass two exams, each of which will cost $300 to take, pushing the cost of the designation to $600.

News - Java Performance, by Charlie Hunt and Binu John is a very technical guide to fine tuning Java applications for Windows, Linux, and Solaris systems.

News - The Jenkins community is promoting a number of bellweathers that would indicate that Hudson is losing the game when it comes to both mindshare and adoption. 85% of upgrades go to Jenkins. Jenkins GitHub repositories outnumber Hudson by a ratio of sixty...

News - In our previous article GPGPU for Java Programming we showed how to setup an environment to execute CUDA from within java code. However the previous article focused only on setting up the environment leaving the subject of parallelism untouched. In this...

News - Forcing full garbage collection each time an application is restarted, while not elegant, would ensure your active connection pool always has connections available, although it may cause problems of its own. In a post today by Apache Tomcat 7 Release...

News - Phil Swenson posted "-Xmx is hurting Java" and spam linked it on a mailing list [the next] morning. His statement is that by limiting the available RAM to a JVM that's less than the available memory on the machine is a bad thing.

News - Okay, maybe the whole 'pushing' thing isn't quite the truth. Maybe there wasn’t any ‘strong arming.’ And the release of version four less than a month after the Compuware acquisition is purely coincidental. But it has been about two years since the...

News - Read how to deal with problems in engineering systems at high-scale. Especially how to deal with failure in deployment and operations management.