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Breaking News - Operating Systems & Middleware:
Borland Expands J2EE Application Performance Optimization
Borland Software announced the release of Borland Optimizeit ServerTrace 3, a
performance optimization and management solution for the J2EE platform and its
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) environments, designed to reduce the
business risks and costs associated with poorly performing business
applications and downtime. Optimizeit ServerTrace 3, the performance testing
element in the Borland Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) cross-platform
portfolio of solutions, enables teams to optimize software performance from
development, testing and now into production, ultimately helping enterprises
to create better software, faster.
"Application outages due to poor J2EE application quality and performance pose
a tremendous business risk," said George Paolini, vice president and general
manager of developer tools at Borland. "Adoption of SOAs further heightens the
need to manage application performance as often external dependencies are
involved. Borland Optimizeit ServerTrace 3 is designed to help ensure optimal
J2EE performance by addressing these types of needs from development through
production while offering excellent team collaboration in every phase of the
lifecycle."
Collaboration within IT teams is extremely important for any business
application. This is especially true when developers, quality assurance
personnel and application administrators must work together to detect,
capture, share, diagnose and resolve application performance issues swiftly
and accurately. Optimizeit ServerTrace 3 provides valuable capabilities that
enhance team collaboration across the lifecycle and offers the critical
information needed by all roles involved in the application performance
management process.
"Application performance management is rapidly evolving from simple aggregate
response monitoring to leveraging a deeper understanding of internal
application structure and behavior," stated Glenn O'Donnell, program director
at META Group, a provider of information technology research, advisory
services and strategic consulting. "As this trend continues, it is becoming
clear that optimum solutions must span the traditional gap between development
and operations. Without such organizational and technological cooperation,
growing complexity will soon cripple attempts to foster business value."
In addition to team collaboration capabilities, Optimizeit ServerTrace 3 also
includes:
- Performance management for web services applications using the J2EE
platform.
- Enhanced J2EE performance problem diagnostics for pre-deployment testing.
- A new production edition that allows operations teams to capture critical
application performance problems on-demand to minimize application downtime
and accelerate time-to-resolution.
Peace Software, a utility Customer Information System (CIS) software company
with offices across the globe, uses Optimizeit ServerTrace to fine tune the
software Peace delivers to millions of customers worldwide, including Fortune
100 companies.
"Optimizeit ServerTrace removes the mysteries of J2EE performance testing,"
said Lex Miller, senior tools engineer at Peace Software. "It's common for
there to be a degree of 'fog' when pinpointing performance issues, but with
Optimizeit ServerTrace reaching through the Java to where it touches the
database, all our experts can see the same issues."
What's New In Borland Optimizeit ServerTrace 3
- Reduces performance hazards in pre-production testing: The updated
Optimizeit ServerTrace 3 Test Edition helps reduce the risk of
under-performing J2EE applications by pinpointing performance bottlenecks
quickly and easily during pre-deployment testing. Integration with third-party
load testing tools, such as Empirix e-Load, Mercury LoadRunner and Segue
SilkPerformer, helps to quickly and accurately diagnose the root cause of
performance problems that surface under load. The powerful diagnostic
capabilities of Optimizeit ServerTrace 3 deliver specific information to test
teams about where time and resources are spent and where problems lie. The
product also offers additional new performance analysis capabilities including
analysis for legacy system connections, advanced JSP and Struts usage and
Memory usage.
- Quickly helps diagnose unexpected performance problems in production: The
new Optimizeit ServerTrace 3 Production Edition's hibernate mode, Transaction
Tracer, captures on-demand, live performance diagnostics information exactly
when an application problem occurs. It delivers this information in a format
that can be shared easily between operations, QA and development teams for
fast time-to-resolution. This helps minimize business downtime and disruption.
Optimizeit ServerTrace 3 integrates with production monitoring frameworks such
as HP OpenView through SNMP and JMX standard protocols. This integration can
alert operations professionals when application performance levels drop,
increasing the value of their existing monitoring investments.
- Integrates with Borland ALM: Optimizeit ServerTrace 3 tightly integrates
with Borland StarTeam, the manage element of the Borland ALM solution, to
provide comprehensive problem-tracking to ensure that problems are
prioritized, assigned and tracked efficiently. It also integrates with the
Borland Optimizeit Enterprise Suite to enable consistent methodology and
collaborative performance management linking back with developers.
- Supports J2EE-based SOA applications: Optimizeit ServerTrace 3 tracks and
analyzes SOA-based web services transactions across the distributed J2EE
environment, making it easier to optimize response times and maintain
acceptable application availability across SOA environments. The new SOA view
tracks AXIS/SOAP and JAX-RPC web services transactions so users can see how
much time each request takes as it flows between SOA applications and web
services providers. An enhanced Progress Tracker capability tracks further
performance trends over time.
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