Java Performance, by Charlie Hunt and Binu John, provides performance tuning advice for both Java SE and EE applications. InfoQ reviews the book, and talks to the authors about their approach.

To get the best performance out of enterprise apps, it's helpful to understand the difference between JVM tuning and Java optimization within your environment.

In this Java performance tuning guide, learn how to put together an application performance manifesto and how to investigate shared resources that might cause a Java performance problem.

A major issue stands in the way of Java scalability today, and better performance tuning parameters will not solve it. Find out why true Java application scalability requires a dramatic overhaul ...

Learn how C4's concurrently compacting garbage collection algorithm helps boost Java scalability for low-latency enterprise Java applications, in this installment of Eva Andreasson's "JVM ...

I am curious about the behavior of Sun JRE (Java 5 and up) WRT GC.Suppose the following bit of code describes the behavior of the code I am writingpublic void someFunction() { // VeryBigObject ...

Microsoft has announced the private preview of jaz, a new Java Virtual Machine (JVM) launcher tailored for cloud deployments on Azure. The tool aims to address long-standing challenges developers face ...

Microsoft announced this morning that it was acquiring jClarity, a service designed to tune the performance of Java applications. It will be doing that on Azure from now on. In addition, the ...