Posts under ‘Java’

Performance Tests with Jmeter, Maven and Hudson

Continuing with the series of blog posts regarding testing, automation and continuous integration, this time I will talk about how to integrate performance tests, in this case using Jmeter, with Maven and the Hudson continuous integration system. Jmeter is one of the main tools we use in our projects to create relevant performance tests, and [...]

Java HelloWorld @ the Cloud with Amazon EC2

This post is about how to run a simple java application installed in one of your Amazon AMI’s Thanks to the GridGain guys who inspired me when I read this page about running GridGain in Amazon EC2 I am going to assume that you know how to create an Amazon AMI. For information on how [...]

Google App Engine goes Mainstream – adds support for Java, Servlets, JDO, JPA etc.

This is the announcement from Google that we’ve all been waiting for. Up until now, Google App Engine,  Google’s offering for Cloud computing had a very restricted development model, only allowing applications to be developed in Python. However, on tuesday during their CampFire event Google announced Java 6 support in Google App Engine. This is [...]

JBoss Remoting + JBoss Serialization kills JavaRMI and Spring Remoting

We have found recently this powerful libray provided by JBoss. The performance we have gain in terms of speed is that JBossRemoting + JBossSerlization is 8.72 times faster than JavaRMI + JavaSerialization (JDK 6 update 11) In our real scenario, basically we are sending a list of around 100000 user defined objects from clients to [...]

Flex with JMS using BlazeDS, Jetty and ActiveMQ

I recently had to develop a small web-based client that exposed results from a JMS Topic to a user. I’ve used Flex in the past and liked it so I thought I’d develop the client in Flex instead of using a standard Java Webapp. A Flex client cannot talk to a JMS topic or queue [...]