Jeremy Lizt

Editor's Note: This article contains benchmark data developed by Oracle. Because we feel this is timely information, we've decided to run the article ahead of confirmation by the JDJ laboratories. We'll confirm these figures in first quarter 2000 and will publish an update in our Enterprise Application Server issue, scheduled for April 2000. As Java has evolved from the language of applets and JavaBeans to that of servlets, Enterprise JavaBeans and database stored procedures, a need has developed for a scalable Java platform. No longer are Java applications run only for a single user. Companies are now building enterprise-scale production systems using server-side Java technology, and these systems need to scale to serve tens ... often tens of thousands ... of concurrent users. Although many efforts have been made to enhance the JDK, Sun Microsystems' reference JVM ... (more)