What ever happend with this? Does anyone know if we should look into this
further? What exaclt does ECperf do and how will it help make JBoss better?
--jason
On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Scott Stirling wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am on the ECperf 1.1 JSR expert group, representing Macromedia. Since all
> the vendors participating in the JSR have yet to release any official
> numbers, it's tough for some of us (even on the expert group) to know what
> constitutes good ECperf results. There's a somewhat vicious circle of
> tuning and testing while hoping/fearing someone else will release their
> numbers first.
>
> To make a long story short, I set up ECperf with JRun 3.1, then with Sun's
> 1.2.1 RI, then with JBoss 2.4-Tomcat-3.2.3 beta. Much of this work was
> started by Bill Kayser of StepZero, who contracted for Macromedia doing a
> lot of performance-related work. Bill worked up the Ant scripts and JRun
> deployment descriptors that are in the ECperf kit on your Web site. I've
> since worked out the kinks for JRun deployment and configuration, and
> applied that experience to the RI and JBoss.
>
> Since JBoss is not a J2EE licensee, it cannot publish offical, reviewed
> ECperf numbers. Reporting stipulations in the ECperf spec and on various
> third party software you'd probably want to use in a benchmark (viz., an
> Oracle d.b.), further make it unlikely JBoss would gain the required third
> party approvals to publish "official" results. Regardless, anyone can
> download ECperf and JBoss and try it out for themselves. (In fact, these
> very points make me think maybe restrictions should be loosened for open
> source implementations.)
>
> Anyway, I've seen the ECperf page on the JBoss site. It's pretty sparse.
> Why? What happened to the plan to have JBoss+ECperf up and running by the
> stated date? It's definitely do-able with the current beta. But you'll
> need a slew of bug fixes to the ECperf app itself, most of which you can
> figure out through trial and error, and (hopefully) all of which you will
> get when ECperf 1.0 first bug fix patch comes out in the next month or so.
>
> Is anyone else here working on JBoss and ECperf? I have some stuff you
> might find very handy. I'd also be interested in feedback on how to better
> tune JBoss for ECperf. If you need someone to write some doco on it, I'd be
> glad to, along with JBoss-specific scripts and deployment descriptors.
>
> Scott Stirling
> JRun QA
> Macromedia
>
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