Racing to Release: Automated Application Promotion
by Paul Nixon
Without properly prepared environments and successful application deployment, delays to your project will occur at a time when the project has little slack left in its delivery schedule. Paul Nixon shows how to avoid these pitfalls. 2007-05-03 | Discuss (4)

Introduction to the WebLogic Diagnostics Framework (WLDF)
by Rebecca Sly
IT managers and system administrators need better ways to monitor and analyze the performance of their servers and deployed resources than scraping log files. WLDF provides such an approach, with powerful instrumentation, data harvesters and persistence features. 2006-06-21 | Discuss (2)

Managing Applications with HP OpenView
Tutorial
by Grace Lin
Java Management Extensions are an ideal way to instrument applications so that they can be embedded in a managed environment, providing peace of mind to line-of-business managers. In this tutorial, Grace Lin introduces the basic ideas behind JMX, and shows how you can use JMX Metric Builder and HP OpenView to monitor applications. 2006-02-20 | Discuss (1)

An Introduction to JRockit Mission Control
by Marcus Hirt
JRockit Mission Control is a set of powerful JVM management and analysis tools provided with the JRockit 5.0 R26 JDK. In this article, Marcus Hirt introduces the various components, including the JRockit Management Console, Runtime Analyzer, and Memory Leak Detector. 2005-12-12 | Discuss (3)

Announcing the 2005 dev2dev Reader Survey - and WebLogic Server Survey too
by Jon Mountjoy
The 2005 dev2dev Reader Survey is underway. This is your opportunity to steer the site by helping us understand what you use, what you're interested in, and what can be improved. It's being run in parallel with a WebLogic Server survey too. Please participate. 2005-10-26 | Discuss (2)