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James Gosling says the only place where Java has a legitimate remaining performance issue is startup time. I fully agree. Everything else now is down to design and implementation, apart from the occasional real JVM performance bug. So it's in your hands Ladies and Gentlemen of the Java world. Java is almost officially mature. At ten years old, that's probably about right for a computer language. And the short history of I.T suggests that as the industry standard language, Java will dominate the I.T. industry for the next twenty years. It is a good time to start something in Java.

JavaPerformanceTuning.com, on the other hand, turned five years old only a few days ago. And I have to admit, we are not mature. There is so much more that needs to be done to the site, so much more development we need to do to serve your needs as readers of our site. We are working on it. I have to say, it will probably take us another five years to get to the point where we provide all the services you would like from us. But it'll be fun getting there. Happy 5th Birthday JavaPerformanceTuning.com.

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Read on for our usual raft of articles, performance news, items and more. And don't miss our many new performance tips extracted in concise form.

News

Java performance tuning related news.

• JRockit claims to be fastest JVM for server side applications running on Intel
• StAX parsing performance paper, comparing several implementations
• Java in real-time systems
• A funky mySQL JDBC bug that eats CPU for fun
• RadView's WebLoad J2EE Analyzer
• APM market projected to reach $500m in 2008 from $43m in 2004

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Tools

• Autopilot provides auto-diagnose and auto-tune capabilities to J2EE applications running on BEA WebLogic Platform
• AppVision-SLM Service Level Management Server

Articles

• New Splash-Screen Functionality in Mustang (Oleg Semenov Dana Nourie/Sun)
• Young vs Old Generation GC (Heinz Kabutz/javaspecialists)
• Web Site Performance (Jeffrey Fulmer/SysAdmin)
• Add Object Cache Monitoring Using JMX and Aspects (Srini Penchikala/devX)
• Memory Leaks (Staffan Larsen /BEA)
• Profiling memory (Calvin Austin/JDJ)

Jack Shirazi

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