8.8 Installing and configuring Trade 6
We now describe how to install and configure the IBM Trade Performance Benchmark Sample for WAS (Trade 6) into the amsterdam sample topology. Compared to the lightweight BeenThere application, Trade 6 is much more complex.
Trade 6 is the fourth generation of the WebSphere end-to-end benchmark and performance sample application and is designed to cover the significantly expanding programming model and performance technologies associated with WAS. Trade 6 provides...
- A real-world workload
- Performance research
- Verification test
...of the J2EE 1.4 implementation in WAS, including key performance components and features.
The Trade 6 application is primarily used for performance research on a wide range of software components and platforms.
Trade's enables performance research on J2EE 1.4 including...
- Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) 2.1 component architecture
- message-driven beans
- transactions (1-phase, 2-phase commit)
- Web services
Trade 6 also drives key WAS performance components such as...
See the document tradeTech.pdf inside the installation package.
Trade 6 demonstrates several new features in WebSphere V6. All Trade-versions are WebSphere-version dependent, so Trade 6 will only work with WAS V6.
The most common configurations for Trade 6 are single server and horizontal clustering scenarios.
For our sample topology, we are using a split-JVM topology which at the same time uses horizontal and vertical clustering. As mentioned earlier, the split-JVM topology is not the best from a performance point of view.