Pro Spring 2.5

Chapter 22. Spring Performance Tuning

Performance is an important aspect of all applications; improving the performance of your application is therefore an important task. We have found that many programmers follow their gut feelings in tuning the RDBMS and optimizing Java code without the facts to support their decisions. You can easily add an index here and use a different implementation of a collection there, but the results rarely justify the time spent doing these improvements.

In this chapter, we will show you how to write fast and responsive applications from the start. We cannot cover specifics of the algorithms your application will use, but we will show you how to avoid most of the performance and responsiveness pitfalls in Java EE application ...