Reduce lock contention and improve performance

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Author: JT Smith

The IBM Lock Analyzer for Java, available from alphaWorks, provides real-time lock monitoring on a running Java application. It highlights threads suffering from lock contention that could be hurting application performance. This article introduces the IBM Lock Analyzer for Java, explains the architecture on which it is built, and provides some thoughts about the tool’s future direction.

Link: ibm.com/developerworks

Category:

  • Java