Online resources

These Web sites and URLs are also relevant as further information sources: WAS InfoCenter

http://www.ibm.com/software/webservers/appserv/infocenter.html
WebSphere V5.1 InfoCenter
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/ws51help/index.jsp
WAS 5.1 InfoCenter messaging tuning section
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/ws51help/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.
websphere.nd.doc/info/ae/ae/tprf_tunejms.html
Content related to dynamic caching in the WebSphere InfoCenter
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wasinfo/topic/com.ibm.websphere.nd
.doc/info/ae/ae/tprf_dynamiccache.html
Edge Components InfoCenter
http://www.ibm.com/software/webservers/appserv/doc/v51/ec/infocenter/index.
html
IBM WAS
http://www.ibm.com/software/webservers/appserv
IBM WAS hardware and software requirements
http://www.ibm.com/software/webservers/appserv/doc/latest/prereq.html
IBM WebSphere Edge Server
http://www.ibm.com/software/webservers/edgeServer
IBM DB2 UDB hardware and software requirements
http://www.ibm.com/software/data/db2/udb/sysreqs.html
HTTP server configuration at IBM HTTP Server InfoCenter
http://www.ibm.com/software/webservers/httpservers/library.html
AIX Fix Distribution Service
http://techsupport.services.ibm.com/rs6k/fixdb.html
IBM WAS Library
http://www.ibm.com/software/webservers/appserv/library/index.html
WAS Development white papers
http://www.ibm.com/software/webservers/appserv/whitepapers.html
WebSphere Best Practices Web site
http://www7b.software.ibm.com/wsdd/zones/bp/
WAS zone at WebSphere Developer Domain
http://www7b.boulder.ibm.com/wsdd/zones/was/
WebSphere performance Web site, including Trade3 code download
http://www.ibm.com/software/webservers/appserv/was/performance.html
BeenThere installation description and link to download
http://www.sys-con.com/websphere/article.cfm?id=321
IBM ~ iSeries performance documents
http://www.ibm.com/servers/eServer/iseries/software/websphere/wsappserver/p
roduct/PerformanceConsiderations.html
Updateinstaller download
http://www.ibm.com/software/webservers/appserv/was/support/
IHS 2.0 download
http://www.ibm.com/software/webservers/httpservers/
GUI tool for building cache policy files
http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/cachepolicyeditor
ASTK download for WebSphere V5.0.2 the ASTK
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=180&context=SSEQTP&q=&uid=swg2400
5125&loc=en_US&cs=utf-8&lang=en+en
WebSphere Developer Domain
http://www7b.software.ibm.com/wsdd/
ThreadAnalyzer, Performance Advisors, and Assembly Toolkit for WAS code download
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/downloads/techpreviews.html
IBM developerWorks
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/
IBM developerWorks WebSphere Best Practices Zone
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/zones/bp/background.html
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/zones/bp/index.html
IBM alphaWorks
http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com
Page Detailer information and download
http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/pagedetailer
IBM WebSphere Studio Workload Simulator
http://www.ibm.com/software/awdtools/studioworkloadsimulator/
IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Web Infrastructure
http://www.ibm.com/software/tivoli/products/monitor-web/
IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Transaction Performance
http://www.ibm.com/software/tivoli/products/monitor-transaction/
List of IBM's Business Partners that offer performance monitoring tools compliant with WAS
http://www.ibm.com/software/webservers/pw/dhtml/wsperformance/performance_b
psolutions.html
Java Performance Tuning Web site
http://www.javaperformancetuning.com/
Supportpacs about JMS performance with WebSphere MQ
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=203&uid=swg24006854&loc=en_US&c
s=utf-8&lang=en
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=203&uid=swg24006902&loc=en_US&c
s=utf-8&lang=en
Design for Scalability - An Update
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/library/techarticles/hvws/scala
bility.html
Caching Technologies for Web Applications
http://www.almaden.ibm.com/u/mohan/
Exploiting Dynamic Caching in WAS 5.0, Part 1 & 2
http://www.e-promag.com/eparchive//index.cfm?fuseaction=viewarticle&Content
ID=3623&publicationid=19&PageView=Search&channel=2
http://www.e-promag.com/eparchive//index.cfm?fuseaction=viewarticle&Content
ID=4409&publicationid=19&PageView=Search&channel=2
Monitoring Performance with WebSphere
http://www.e-promag.com/eparchive//index.cfm?fuseaction=viewarticle&Content
ID=1492&publicationid=13&PageView=Search&channel=2
Hints on Running a High-Performance Web Server - Tuning IBM IHS
http://www.ibm.com/software/webservers/httpservers/doc/v136/misc/perf.html
Enhancements and Changes in J2SE 1.4.1 Platform
http://java.sun.com/products/archive/j2se/1.4.1_07/changes.html
Reducing Garbage Collection Times and Sizing Memory
http://developers.sun.com/techtopics/mobility/midp/articles/garbage/
Improving Java Application Performance and Scalability by Reducing Garbage Collection Times and Sizing Memory Using JDK 1.4.1
http://developers.sun.com/techtopics/mobility/midp/articles/garbagecollecti
on2/
Fine-tuning Java garbage collection performance
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/ibm/library/i-gctroub/
Garbage collection in the 1.4.1 JVM
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-jtp11253/
A brief history of garbage collection
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-jtp10283/
Sensible Sanitation: Understanding the IBM Java Garbage Collection, Parts 1 and 2
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/ibm/library/i-garbage1/
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/ibm/library/i-garbage2/
Sensible Sanitation: Understanding the IBM Java Garbage Collection Part 3: verbosegc and command-line parameters
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/i-garbage3.html
J2EE Application Development: One or many applications per appserver?
http://www7b.software.ibm.com/wsdd/techjournal/0211_alcott/alcott.html
Handling Static content in WAS
http://www7b.software.ibm.com/wsdd/techjournal/0211_brown/brown.html
Willy Chiu, Design for Scalability - An Update, IBM, 2001
http://www7b.boulder.ibm.com/wsdd/library/techarticles/hvws/scalability.htm
l
IBM WebSphere Developer Technical Journal: Writing PMI applications using the JMX interface
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/techjournal/0402_qiao/0402_qiao
.html
IBM WebSphere Developer Technical Journal: Writing a Performance Monitoring Tool Using WAS's Performance Monitoring Infrastructure API
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/techjournal/0202_rangaswamy/ran
gaswamy.html
WebSphere Performance Diagnostice - Going beyond the Metrics
http://www.sys-con.com/websphere/article.cfm?id=207
Design for Performance: Analysis of Download Times for Page Elements Suggests Ways to Optimize
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/library/techarticles/hvws/perfo
rm.html
Mark that trash - Incremental compaction in the IBM JDK Garbage Collector
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/ibm/library/i-incrcomp/
Implementing a Highly Available Infrastructure for WAS Network Deployment, Version 5.0 without Clustering
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/apps/transform.wss?URL=/developerworks/we
bsphere/library/techarticles/0304_alcott/alcott.xml&xslURL=/developerworks/
websphere/xsl/document.xsl&format=one-column
Server Clusters For High Availability in WAS Network Deployment Edition 5.0
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27002473
JMS Application Architectures
http://www.theServerside.com/articles/article.tss?l=JMSArchitecture
JMS Topologies and Configurations with WAS and WebSphere Studio Version 5
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/library/techarticles/0310_barci
a/barcia.html
MSCS step-by-step configuration guide
http://microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/planning/server/clustersteps.asp
Log4J
http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j/
Java Security, JAAS, JCE and JSSE
http://java.sun.com/security
Apache Software Foundation
http://www.apache.org
Apache HTTP Server source-code
http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi
Apache 2.0 Feature list
http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/new_features_2_0.html
Apache HTTP Server documentation
http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mpm.html
ApacheBench manual and list of options
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/programs/ab.html
Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) version 2.5 download
http://microsoft.com/data/download.htm
Mercury LoadRunner
http://www.merc-int.com
Rational Suite TestStudio
http://www.ibm.com/software/awdtools/suite/
Radview WebLOAD
http://www.radview.com
Mindcraft WebStone
http://www.mindcraft.com
Opendemand Systems OpenLoad
http://www.opendemand.com/openload/
Akamai
http://www.akamai.com
Speedera
http://www.speedera.com
Network Appliance
http://www.netapp.com
Blue Coat
http://www.bluecoat.com
Cisco Cache Engine
http://www.cisco.com
InfoLibria DynaCache
http://www.infolibria.com
Edge Side Include (ESI)
http://www.esi.org
Sun Solaris performance information
http://www.sean.de/Solaris/soltune.html
OpenSTA V1.4.2
http://www.opensta.org/download.html
OpenSTA community site
http://portal.opensta.org/
OpenSTA sourcecode
http://opensta.sourceforge.net/
IBM Rational Suite TestStudio
http://www.ibm.com/software/awdtools/suite/
JMeter, Open Source software from the Apache Software Foundation
http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/
TestMaker and TestNetwork, from PushToTest
http://www.pushtotest.com/
Grinder
http://grinder.sourceforge.net
Segue SilkPerformer
http://www.segue.com/products/load-stress-performance-testing/index.asp

 

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