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Java Performance Tuning
Delivery Options
- Customized Onsite Training (2 days): Request a Proposal
Class Description
Class Overview
This Java Performance Tuning class is a lab-intensive course geared for experienced software developers who are looking to expand their knowledge and skills in the Java world. This Java class is highly customizable and draws from the extensive knowledge and content base to tune the course itself to the student needs.
Class Goals
- Learn to list possible metrics for measuring software performance
- Learn to explain the effect of OO design on software performance
- Learn to list and describe types of benchmarks and the criteria that should be considered when constructing a benchmark plan
- Learn to explore the most useful targets for profiling, and the most common tools/techniques for profiling
- Learn to describe two strategies for improving performance as a result of profiling data
- Learn to list and explain the five most common problem areas for good performance with Java
- Learn to use the JDK to collect runtime profiling data
- Learn to successfully read the profiling data generated by the JDK to detect performance bottlenecks
- Learn to instrument your own code to collect method execution time data
- Learn code optimization techniques relating to object management, exceptions, threads, and serialization
- Understand the JVM Architecture from the perspective of performance
- Examine and work with Java language features that can impact performance
- Understand how XML is processed using Java
- Learn best practices for improving XML processing performance
- Learn best practices for improving web services performance
- Learn the impact of security and application defenses on performance
- Learn the tradeoff between defense and performance
Class Outline
- Writing High Performance Applications
- Performance: Process and Issues
- Architecture of the JVM
- Memory Management Issues
- CPU Performance Issues
- Threading Issues
- Profiling and Benchmarking
- Determining What to Profile
- Determining What to Tune
- Profiling Tools
- Tactical vs. Strategic Optimization
- Code Optimization Techniques
- Design Optimization Techniques
- Impact of Exceptions
- Impact of Reflection
- Using Profilers
- Applying Code Optimization
- Applying Design Optimization
- Effective Java
- Creating and Destroying Objects
- Factory Methods
- Impact of Finalizers
- Methods Common to Most Objects
- Classes and Interfaces
- Immutability
- Composition vs. Inheritance
- Exceptions
- Managing Exceptions Efficiently
- Threads
- Impact of Synchronization
- Threading Constructs to Avoid
- Serialization
- Impact of readObject()
- XML and Security
- Working with XML in Java
- Best practices for improving XML processing performance
- How Performance is Affected by XML Structure and Use
- Best practices for improving web services performance
- Impact of security and application defenses on performance
- Tradeoff between defense and performance
- J2EE Tuning (optional)
- The Performance Tuning Guide
- Basic Tuning Principles and Concepts
- Establishing Performance Bounds
- Server Tuning Options
Class Materials
Each student in our Live Online and our Onsite classes receives a comprehensive set of materials, including course notes and all the class examples.
Class Prerequisites
Experience in the following areas is required:
- Java Programming
Technical Requirements
Our computer technical requirements and setup process is easy, with support just a click away.
- Onsite and Instructor-led Online course technical requirements and setup instructions.
- WebEx system requirements for Instructor-led Online delivery option.
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