Articles by Philip Aston

The Grinder: Load Testing for Everyone

Thu, 20 Jun 2002 00:00:00 EDT

The Grinder is an easy-to-use Java-based load generation and performance measurement tool that adapts to a wide range of J2EE applications. If you have a J2EE performance measurement requirement, The Grinder will probably fit the bill.

RMI Interoperability - In a clasloader of its own

Tue, 26 Mar 2002 00:00:00 EST

If you've had the pleasure of working with BEA WebLogic Server for several years, you may know that RMI/T3 calls between different releases of the server used to be disallowed to be buzzword -compliant, the releases were not 'wire compatible.' For example, you couldn't call an EJB deployed on WebLogic Server 4.5.1 from a WebLogic Server 5.1 application. This often meant that groups of applications had to be migrated together to new versions of WebLogic Server.

To Begin at the Beginning...

Mon, 07 Jan 2002 00:00:00 EST

The Java Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI) has a central role in the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE). J2EE applications use JNDI to look up components and services, including JMS queues and topics, transaction services, JDBC connections, and EJBs.