Sun Performance and Tuning: Java™ and the Internet, Second Edition

Thoughts on the Future

The performance tools market is evolving, and a few trends are visible. Vendors are figuring out what their competition does that customers like, and they are implementing it themselves. This strategy leads toward a similar common set of functionality but does not help interoperability. In general, data collected by an agent from one vendor cannot be used by an analysis and display system from another vendor. This reality leads to hard choices when it would be nice to combine the best of two tools. The UMA standard attempts to solve this problem, but it does not have enough support from the tools vendors and has ended up as a Unix-oriented standard, just when users want to include Windows NT in their environments. The ...