For those running Java applications or services, the Windows Performance Monitor (WPM) contains a treasure trove of valuable information—see Figure 1. There are hundreds (or thousands) of ...

On the Java platform, the Java Management Extension or JMX is the monitoring and management framework. Sun has bundled JMX APIs in its distribution since JDK 5. There is an accompanying tool ...

By taking advantage of Java monitoring and performance tuning tools, developers can expect to see consistent application performance across all hardware and operating systems.

For example, the Java Mission Control (JMC) tools are useful to monitor and manage Java applications with minimal performance overhead. Similarly, jvisualvm is a useful graphical tool to gather ...

The Java Tutorial provides some good rules of thumb that help to determine the appropriate class to use in a given situation. For example, use JProgressBar when you need more than one progress bar ...

Precise, the global leader in transaction performance management (TPM), today announced new capabilities for monitoring of Java clusters, a complex and costly issue for enterprises operating ...