JBoss AS 5 Performance Tuning will teach you how to deliver fast applications on the JBoss Application Server and Apache Tomcat, giving you a decisive competitive advantage over your competitors. You will learn how to optimize hardware resources, meeting your application requirements with less expenditure.

The performance of Java Enterprise applications is the sum of a set of components including the Java Virtual Machine configuration, the application server configuration (in our case, JBoss AS), the application code itself, and ultimately the operating system. This book will show you how to apply the correct tuning methodology and use the tuning tools that will help you to monitor and address any performance issues.

By looking more closely at the Java Virtual Machine, you will get a deeper understanding of what the available options are for your applications, and how their performance will be affected. Learn about thread pool tuning, EJB tuning, and JMS tuning, which are crucial parts of enterprise applications.

The persistence layer and the JBoss Clustering service are two of the most crucial elements which need to be configured correctly in order to run a fast application. These aspects are covered in detail with a chapter dedicated to each of them.

Finally, Web server tuning is the last (but not least) topic covered, which shows how to configure and develop web applications that get the most out of the embedded Tomcat web server.