Network performance of the JBoss Application Server

Author

Benothman, Nabil ; Clere, Jean-Frederic ; Schiller, Eryk ; Kropf, Peter ; Maucherat, Remy

Author_Institution

Univ. of Neuchatel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland

fYear

2013

fDate

21-24 Oct. 2013

Firstpage

739

Lastpage

742

Abstract

JBoss Application Server (AS) uses java.io and the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) project to provide its HTTP connectors. Due to new features of upcoming specifications of the Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE), the existing connectors shall be replaced by modern non blocking Input/Outputs (I/Os). In this study, we review some modern I/O frameworks such as NIO.2 introduced by Java SE 7 and XNIO3 developed by JBoss. We compare their network performance by running a series of stress tests on client-server applications of limited functionality. As a result, we select NIO.2 as the most appropriate framework to specify and implement a new JBoss connector. Finally, we compare our newly implemented Java connector against the existing APR-based one by means of network performance measures.

Keywords

Java; client-server systems; hypermedia; transport protocols; APR; AS; HTTP connectors; I/O frameworks; JBoss application server; Java EE; Java SE 7; Java enterprise edition; Java.io; XNIO3; apache portable runtime; client-server applications; network performance; Connectors; Delays; Java; Memory management; Message systems; Servers; Synchronization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Local Computer Networks (LCN), 2013 IEEE 38th Conference on

Conference_Location

Sydney, NSW

ISSN

0742-1303

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-0536-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LCN.2013.6761324

Filename

6761324