Front cover -- Contents -- Notices -- Trademarks -- Preface -- The team that wrote this redbook -- Notice -- Comments welcome -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Overview -- 1.2 Performance metrics -- 1.3 Environment -- Chapter 2. The performance of an architecture -- 2.1 Overview -- 2.2 J2EE architecture -- 2.2.1 Model View Controller architecture -- 2.2.2 J2EE components and performance -- 2.2.3 World of patterns -- 2.3 Number of tiers -- 2.3.1 Logical tiers -- 2.3.2 Physical tiers -- 2.4 Scalability -- Chapter 3. Tools -- 3.1 Performance monitoring -- 3.2 Introduction to tools -- 3.3 Introscope -- 3.4 JInsight -- 3.5 JProbe -- Chapter 4. Programming techniques -- 4.1 Applying design patterns -- 4.1.1 Creational patterns -- 4.1.2 Structural patterns -- 4.1.3 Behavioral patterns -- 4.2 Code optimization techniques -- 4.2.1 Java programming techniques -- 4.2.2 JDBC and SQLJ -- 4.2.3 Servlet and JSP performance hints and tips -- 4.2.4 EJB programming hints and tips -- Chapter 5. Data access -- 5.1 The sample application: OnlineBuying -- 5.2 Cache data to reduce remote calls -- 5.3 CMP versus BMP -- 5.4 BMP with SQLJ -- 5.5 Stateful vs. stateless session EJBs -- Chapter 6. Deployment and execution -- 6.1 Isolation levels -- 6.2 Read-only methods -- 6.3 Transaction attribute -- 6.4 Load at server startup -- 6.5 JNDI lookup -- Related publications -- IBM Redbooks -- Other resources -- Referenced Web sites -- How to get IBM Redbooks -- IBM Redbooks collections -- Index -- Back cover.