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Welcome to the 1st Annual Java Server Performance Workshop Homepage

Held at the IBM TJ Watson Research Center.

Hawthorne, New York.

May 21, 1999

Planned and hosted by Sandra Johnson Baylor

With its promise of "write once, run anywhere", Java has the potential to revolutionize computing. However, the satisfactory performance of Java is essential for this potential to be realized. Rapid progress has been made in addressing Java performance, although most of the effort targets Java client applications. In order to facilitate a competitive level of performance, the unique issues associated with server applcations written in Java, or those using Java extensions as part of the total programming solution, must be addressed. Some to these issues include multi-threaded object creation and access, multiple concurrent resource access using hundreds of thousands of threads, and issues associated with web-serves and multi-tier transactions.

Therefore, the objective of this workshop was to initiate discussions regarding Java server performance issues. This included discussing and prioritizing the issues and learning about the work underway in academia and at IBM Research in this area. Another objective was to provide an understanding of our experiences with commercial Java workloads, and the use of benchmarks to highlight some of the issues. Discussions were also initiated regarding potential collaborative activities on Java server performance with researchers at IBM, and a free-form discussion on "Is Java the Real Deal for Servers?"

Approximately 35 individuals attended the workshop and it was a huge success, as evidenced by the workshop evaluation below. The workshop has enabled many participants to learn about the diverse activities currently underway in this area and to generate new ideas, methodologies and directions for further research.

Workshop Evaluation