Description: I found this book most rewarding; it covers many aspect of performance tuning Java for applications, and it does so in a well-written, clear and orderly fashion. The author starts by covering the fundamentals of performance measuring and tuning, reiterating and reinforcing what is already known to the serious programmer but most likely overlooked by the novice. The other half of the book proceeds to dissect the behavior of Java application and the JVM in order to gain insights into the tuning process and the to be avoided pitfalls. The items covered here are crucial to developing robust and effective java programs, especially for those writing infrastructure and server like applications. For the novice, the ordered scientific approach to demystify the myths of Java performance and the concise advice given is more than welcomed. As for the experienced developer, the second half of the books deals with those issues of real concern: threading and distributed computing Overall I found the ..
ISBN:
0596003773
Release Date:
January, 2003
List Price:
$31.47
Author:
Jack Shirazi
Publisher:
O'Reilly & Associates
Last Updated:
06/26/2003
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