Maximizing Performance and Scalability with IBM WebSphere


ADAM NEAT

Copyright 2004 by Adam Neat

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To my loving wife, Michelle; my Mum; Dad; and little sister ”thank you for your encouragement, support, and drive over the past several years , of which this endeavor especially would not have been without it.

About the Author

Adam Neat , who lives in Melbourne, Australia, is a consulting manager for one of the world's leading management and IT consultancy firms where he's the Australian and New Zealand infrastructure and platform lead, focusing on technical architectures such as host systems, storage systems, and operating systems (and all things in-between), within the communications and technology market sector.

He's recognized as a global expert in infrastructure and platform architectures, and he provides specialty expertise in technical architectures covering technologies such as J2EE/Java, various forms of middleware (MQ, CORBA, and so on), large-scale systems, performance management, and application design and architecture, as well as the deployment, configuration, and management of enterprise application servers such as IBM's WebSphere, BEA's WebLogic, and Sun's Sun ONE Application Server.

Adam continues to be heavily involved in the integration and production optimization of large-scale Unix-based systems and databases.

Working with a Global 500 client list, Adam has significant experience with deep technologies and large-scale systems and more than ten years of industry experience. Adam frequently presents at industry conferences on platform architectures, J2EE and .NET, and open source and Linux topics. He's involved with several open -source and Linux initiatives and has written for various industry magazines and publications about these topics.

He's a member of the Australian Institute of Management and has a degree in Computing Systems from Monash University in Australia.

About the Technical Reviewer

Matt Hogstrom is a senior software engineer with IBM and is currently working for the WebSphere performance team. He joined IBM in 1999 and has conducted performance analysis on all platforms on which WebSphere deploys. He was also IBM's representative to JSR-004 (ECperf 1.0) and JSR-131 (ECperf 1.1). Currently he serves on the OSG-Java subcommittee at SPEC where he works with other vendors (application server, database, and hardware) to develop J2EE-based benchmarks for the performance testing of AppServer configurations. He's generally very boring and late on all assignments.

Acknowledgments

This book has been a true group effort. Many people were involved in pulling this publication together ”thank you to you all. There were, however, a few people who worked hard to help me complete this book.

First, thanks to my production team at Apress, lead by Tracy Brown Collins. Without Tracy keeping me on track and up-to-date on what was due and when, this book would have been greatly delayed! Thank you, Tracy, for your patience and perseverance with my sometimes chaotic work schedule, especially given that we had a team working in five different time zones around the globe.

Second, to the rest of the Apress team who worked with me on my book ” Laura Cheu, my production editor; Kim Wimpsett and Nicole LeClerc, my copy editors; Jessica Dolcourt, who was involved in marketing the book and convinced me to put my photo on the cover ”thank you all for your help and support.

Thanks also to Brian Carr, my photographer, for his much appreciated involvement.

Thanks to Matt Hogstrom from the IBM WebSphere Performance Labs; thanks to you, Matt, and your team at IBM for your validation and support of my recommendations and approach.

Neil Salkind, my publishing agent ”thank you for your guidance and help early on in shaping the idea to write this book.

To my family ”My Dad, Mum, and sister, Shannon. Thank you for your constant encouragement and feedback.

And to my wife, Michelle, who always puts up with my desire to work long hours, especially the near-ridiculous hours spent writing and reviewing this book. Without your patience, understanding, and constant encouragement, I wouldn't have been able to put this together. Thank you dearly!




Maximizing Performance and Scalability with IBM WebSphere
Maximizing Performance and Scalability with IBM WebSphere
ISBN: 1590591305
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 111
Authors: Adam G. Neat

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