I'm writing to let you know I just finished work on my 2nd book project, "J2EE Performance Testing" (Expert Press, ISBN: 1-904284-00-0), collaborating with Peter Zadrozny, chief technologist with BEA Systems. I contributed material on Enterprise JavaBean (EJB) design patterns and their impact on J2EE application performance. The material includes a sample EJB application, servlet-based test harness, actual test case result comparisons and analysis.
The book is now on store shelves. If you get the opportunity to check it out, I'd love to hear what you think! (Amazon.com link: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1904284000) Also, in support of the book, I'll be giving a technical presentation at Softpro Books' (http://www.softpro.com) Burlington, MA location on July 10th. If you're in the area and are interested in EJB development, I'd love to see you there. Details on the presentation are below. Anyway, I hope all is well with you, and I look forward to seeing you again soon, Ted ------------------ Ted Osborne P.O. Box 1333 Burlington, MA 617-320-5487 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tedosborne.com Title: "Testing EJB Design Pattern Performance" Location: Softpro Books, Burlington MA (http://www.softpro.com/events.html) Date: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 Time: 6:30pm Drawing from his material in the recently published "J2EE Performance Testing" (Expert Press, ISBN: 1-904284-00-0), Ted will walk through some of the practical motives, useful techniques, and potential hazards in testing EJB design patterns. In the presentation, he will also review some of the actual test results and analysis obtained from running the EJB design pattern test cases against BEA WebLogic Server. About the speaker: Ted Osborne (www.tedosborne.com) is an independent software consultant, developer, and author, focusing on performance measurement for applications built on the J2EE platform. He has been a frequent speaker at key industry conferences, and was also a contributing author for "Professional EJB" (Wrox Press, ISBN: 1861005083). While at Empirix, Ted was one of the founding team members that invented "Bean-test" -- the world's first automated load testing tool for Enterprise JavaBeans. Since that time, Ted has met with hundreds of J2EE developers, project managers, QA staff, and other industry experts around the world, learning about their EJB and J2EE application performance issues. >From the publisher (http://www.expert-press.com): "Performance is the single biggest issue facing J2EE application developers and is a major concern of organizations considering J2EE adoption. This book is a detailed reference that can be used to evaluate and understand the performance of enterprise J2EE applications. Every J2EE application is unique and it is difficult, if not impossible, to extrapolate performance results from one application to another. So, in this book we provide a load generating tool and a simple, adaptable methodology that will help you obtain detailed performance data for your own applications. We show how to performance test complete J2EE applications, and also how to explore key performance issues surrounding the most popular J2EE APIs. In this way, we elucidate the methodology, and set a general level of expectations with regard to J2EE performance. Building on this foundation, you can continue to explore the performance issues that directly affect you and use your own test data to make informed business decisions about the design and development of your applications." http://www.softpro.com/events.html =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff EJB-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
