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J2EE server scalability through EJB replication

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Sylvain Sicard,

Daniel HagimontAuthors Info & Claims

SAC '06: Proceedings of the 2006 ACM symposium on Applied computing

Pages 778 - 785

https://doi.org/10.1145/1141277.1141455

Published: 23 April 2006 Publication History

Abstract

With the development of Internet-based business, Web applications are becoming increasingly complex. The J2EE specification aims at enabling the design of such web application servers. These servers have to ensure scalability and availability of the supported applications. Scalibility can be achieved using replication techniques or partitionning techniques. The aim of this paper is to compare these approaches. In a J2EE web application server, one important component is the EJB tier. In this context, the JOnAS web application server provides an example of EJB replication system called CMI (Cluster Method Invocation). In a first step, this paper presents a performance evaluation of CMI. It then introduces incrementally an alternative scheme based on partitionning and shows the performance benefits compared to CMI.

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J2EE server scalability through EJB replication
1. General and reference
  1. Cross-computing tools and techniques
    1. Performance
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software organization and properties
    1. Extra-functional properties
      1. Software performance

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DOI:10.1145/1141277

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Nadee WNgamsuriyaroj S(2012)Performance evaluation of TPC-H queries on Java EE cluster2012 Ninth International Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering (JCSSE)10.1109/JCSSE.2012.6261984(385-390)Online publication date: May-2012
https://doi.org/10.1109/JCSSE.2012.6261984
Paz APerez-Sorrosal FPatino-Martinez MJimenez-Peris R(2010)Scalability Evaluation of the Replication Support of JOnAS, an Industrial J2EE Application ServerProceedings of the 2010 European Dependable Computing Conference10.1109/EDCC.2010.16(55-60)Online publication date: 28-Apr-2010
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