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Add ARM performance monitoring easily with Eclipse

Extend enterprise management tools directly to your applications

Ashish Patel (ashishp@ca.ibm.com), IBM Performance Optimization Toolkit (IPOT) Architect and Lead Developer, IBM Rational

Ashish Patel is a software architect and development lead working at the IBM Toronto Software Lab in Canada. He has more than seven years of industry experience in software architecture and development, and four years of business development and entreprenuerial experience. He participated in IBM’s premiere internship program, Extreme Blue, where he co-founded the IBM Performance Optimization Toolkit. He has worked with IBM for two years on numerous start-up products in the software development and test area. Prior to joining IBM, he created software solutions for one of the largest integrated petroleum companies in the world and one of Canada’s top providers of energy. He also founded a privately held software development and consultancy firm, where he was appointed the president and chairman of the corporation, which he operated for four years. He also holds a computer engineering degree from the University of Alberta.

Oliver E. Cole (oec@ocsystems.com), President, Freelance Consultant

Oliver E. Cole is president of OC Systems Inc., a software company that develops, sells, and supports advanced software instrumentation tools. He has more than 25 years of extensive hands-on experience in developing, testing. and performance tuning large-scale mission-critical software for a variety of organizations, including commercial and international interests. Before founding OC Systems, Cole worked on a number of high-reliability real-time systems for the U.S. military. He is a member of the Eclipse Test & Performance Tools Platform (TPTP) Project Management Committee, speaks regularly at industry conferences, and has had a number of articles published in industry publications.

Summary: The Eclipse Test & Performance Tools Platform (TPTP) project released an open source and Application Response Measurement (ARM) V4.0-compliant implementation in June 2006, based on TPTP V4.2. This tutorial describes the TPTP project and explains how ARM has been implemented and integrated with TPTP. The trade-offs involved in getting to this point are discussed, along with the challenges in moving forward. Specific examples show how to get started using ARM for your application with TPTP.

Date: 06 Feb 2007
Level: Intermediate
PDF: A4 and Letter (784 KB | 25 pages)Get Adobe® Reader®

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This tutorial describes how the Eclipse Test & Performance Tools Platform (TPTP) project is extending its toolset to use The Open Group Application Response Measurement (ARM) instrumentation methodology for response-time tracking. Starting with TPTP V4.2, performance analysts will be able to use Eclipse TPTP -- or products based on TPTP technology -- to identify and monitor individual transactions as they pass through the various components of composite applications.

The implementation of ARM described in this paper was released as a Technology Preview with TPTP V4.2 in June 2006. In the future, it will be fully integrated into TPTP.

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