Maximizing Performance and Scalability with IBM WebSphere

1 The Need for Performance.- 2 WebSphere Scalability and Availability.- 3 WebSphere 4 and 5 Component Architectures.- 4 WebSphere Infrastructure Design.- 5 WebSphere Deployment and Network Architecture.- 6 WebSphere Platform Performance, Tuning, and Optimization.- 7 WebSphere Failover and High Availability Considerations.- 8 External WebSphere System Availability.- 9 WebSphere EJB and Web Container Performance.- 10 Developing High-Performance WebSphere Applications.- 11 WebSphere Database Performance and Optimization.- 12 Legacy Integration: Performance Optimization.- 13 Performance Management Tooling.- 14 Profiling and Benchmarking WebSphere.

Adam G. Neat is a consulting manager for one of the world's leading management and IT consultancy firms. He is the Australian and New Zealand e-infrastructure lead, covering technical architectures such as host systems, storage systems, and operating systems (and all things in between), within the communications and technology industry. He is recognized as a global expert in infrastructure architectures, and he provides specialty expertise in technical architectures covering technologies such as J2EE/Java, various forms of middleware (MQ, CORBA, etc), large-scale systems, application design and architecture, and the deployment, configuration, and management of enterprise application servers such as IBM's WebSphere, BEA's WebLogic, and Sun's SunOne Application Server. Adam is also heavily involved in the integration and production optimization of large-scale UNIX-based systems and databases such as DB2 and Oracle. Adam is a member of the Australian Institute of Management and holds a degree in computing systems from Monash University.

Describes the IBM WebSphere versions 4.0 and 5.0 architecture from a nuts and bolts level, giving visibility to the technology and underlying WebSphere platform design Describes how to proactively manage the performance of an IBM WebSphere v4 or v5 platform Thorough descriptions of tuning WebSphere with performance and robustness in mind Teaches the reader how to develop custom IBM WebSphere performance monitoring and management tools