www.theserverside.com hosts the homepage for EC Perf - ecperf.theserverside.com
>From the homepage - "ECPerf is a benchmark and implementation for measuring
performance and scalability of J2EE servers."
No one has published any results yet - it will be interesting to see who steps
forward first.
-scott
Jason Dillon wrote:
> 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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