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Chapter 1. Executive summary
IBM WebSphere Studio Application Monitor (Application Monitor) observes and reports on
the health of Java™ 2 Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE) applications. It tracks the progress
of applications as they traverse through J2EE application servers, middleware adapters, and
transports, and on to back-end established systems, such as IBM CICS, IMS, and DB2®, to
extract business data or to invoke established business processes. The tracking of
applications produces request traces, where the events in a request’s life are recorded and
stored in a monitoring repository database ...