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Preface
This IBM® Redbook helps you design, develop, operate, monitor, and tune DB2®
UDB V8 and WebSphere® Application Server (WAS) V5 based applications in
UNIX® and Windows® environments. It also covers using DB2 Connect™ in a
WAS environment.
This book is organized as follows:
Chapter 1, “Introduction” on page 1, talks about the IBM On Demand
operating environment and its roadmap, key areas of performance, and
guidelines to tune them. We also discuss the process of performance tuning
and recognize the limits of performance tuning in the system.
Chapter 2, “Overview of WebSphere Application Server V5” on page 19,
provides a brief overview of Java™ 2 platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE),