J. Stan Cox is a senior engineer with IBM's WebSphere Application Server performance group. In this role, he has worked to improve WebSphere application performance for J2EE, Web 2.0, Web services, XML and more. His current focus is WebSphere multicore and parallel foundation performance. Stan holds a B.S.C.S from Appalachian State University (1990) and an MS in computer science from Clemson University (1992).
As software developers we have enjoyed a long trend of consistent performance improvement from processor technology. In fact, for the last 20 years processor performance has consistently doubled about every two years or so. What would happen in a world where these performance improvem...Aug. 27, 2007 04:30 PM EDT Reads: 18,444 Replies: 1
One of the greatest strengths of Java Platform 2, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) application servers is the ability to scale solutions to meet increased performance and availability demands. The inherent clustering and failover capabilities built into products such as the IBM WebSphere Appl...
