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The performance of a web application is affected by several factors. In this paper, the effects of two configurable software settings of J2EE application servers are discussed: the maximum size of the thread pool and the maximum size of the connection queue. Previous work has shown that both tuning parameters have a considerable impact on the performance metrics, and both of them should be taken into account when constructing a performance model of a web application. This paper presents a queueing network-based performance model that is able to capture the effect of the connection queue limit. New performance measurements which can help improving this model are also presented.
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Imre, G., Levendovszky, T., Charaf, H. (2007). Modeling the Effect of Application Server Settings on the Performance of J2EE Web Applications. In: Draheim, D., Weber, G. (eds) Trends in Enterprise Application Architecture. TEAA 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4473. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75912-6_15
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