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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
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
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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Future direction

Current plans include adding enhanced types of instrumentation to the Probekit Library to support such technologies as Web services and native applications. We're looking to provide a more elaborate library for J2EE applications. The extended library could include servlet, Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs), Remote Method Invocation (RMI), Java Database Connector (JDBC), and Java Web Services.

Other enhancements include support for instrumentation to work with the application servers supported by the Eclipse Web Tools Project (WTP), including IBM WebSphere®, Apache Tomcat, JBox, JOnAS, and Microsoft IIS. In addition, we look to capture the SQL statements executed during a business transaction on various databases, such as IBM DB2®, Cloudscape, and MySQL.

While Java and J2EE are leading technologies for application development, there are other technologies in widespread use, notably .NET (Visual Basic.NET or C#) and scripting languages (PHP, Perl, Ruby on Rails). Support for those technologies could be added.

A particularly important issue is that the ARM V4.0 standard does not define the format of the correlator. This means that ARM implementations are not interoperable. As more ARM implementations arrive, we can expect this issue to start to gain prominence.

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