If the book never gets out, I plan to write a 30-50 page paper based on the results of our benchmarks and give it to the TC community. Hopefully it won't go down the drain, since Remy and I spend over 2 months doing a ton of benchmarks with all sorts of variations and tuning options.
peter --- Remy Maucherat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Turner wrote: > > The book was never published. The original > publisher (Wrox) went out of > > business and liquidated assets. > > > > The rights to the performance handbook (and many > other former Wrox > > titles including the security handbook) were > picked up by Apress. The > > rights to the rest were picked up by Wiley. I > think Wiley is running > > wrox.com right now. > > > > From the conversations I've had with Apress, the > future of the > > performance book is undecided, though that could > change at any moment. I > > for one think there is a need for such a book, but > with Tomcat 5 coming > > out, it might need to be rewritten to address the > new release. > > As the coauthor of the said handbook (which is now > indeed relatively out > of date), I am quite pissed at Wrox and APress (I > still haven't been > paid a dime despite recurrent claims from APress for > the past 4 months > that "they'll be coming back to me within a week"). > > So a big thank you to these folks for the nice > support to OSS > contributors :-D (ok, I'm sarcastic) > > -- > xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Rémy Maucherat > Senior Developer & Consultant > JBoss Group (Europe) SàRL > xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
