Robert Lee

Open source comes of age with Java EE 5 SDK - SPECJAppServer2004 benchmark

In the event you missed JavaOne'2006, Sun released the Java EE 5 SDK - the next generation of enterprise Java which includes the Sun Java System Application 9.0 Server Platform Edition (SJSAS 9.0 PE). The SDK is a defining release for the Java EE community because it dramatically increases developer efficiency by streamlining and reducing the amount of code written and maintained by including technologies such as EJB 3.0, JSF 1.2 and Annotations making Java EE and Web Services easier to use to both new and experienced developers alike.

Developed in public with Project GlassFish Open Source community, Sun latest benchmark of Sun Java System Application 9.0 Server Platform Edition on SPECJAppServer2004 highmarks a new age for enterprise software and vigor of OSS community to deliver enterprise performance and scalability with zero cost software. Pushing the price performance envelope, Sun's result of 712 JOPS and price performance of $72/JOPS on a complete Free OSS stack including of total acquisition cost for Java EE application server, database software and hardware. The four-node configuration leveraged Sun Fire X4100 multi-core systems running Solaris 10, Sun Java System Application Server 9.0 Platform Edition and MySQL 5 delivered throughput in excess 42,000 operations per minute supporting over 6,000 concurrent users with absolutely no software licensing constraints to take into production.

This publication outlines the true measure of price-performance based on $/JOPS factoring the complete software and hardware cost of deployment in achieving the measured result for the entire topology, using money ($/JOPS) as the true factor in gaging efficiency of the system, details which are overlooked in other JOPS/core price-performance analysis as they omit true cost of licensing their software and underlying hardware in providing overall system capacity. Comparative results are quite astonishing, true $72/JOPS of Free OSS Stack (with Solaris 10, Sun's Application Server 9 Platform Edition and MySQL5) versus other similar 12 core topologies with BEA WebLogic 9 and Oracle database on RedHat Enterprise Linux of $612/JOPS, see diagram below:

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For more details see Tom Daly's blog , Scott Oak's blog and Jenny Chen's blog. This submission underlines Sun's continued commitment to provide high performance, scalable, free and Open Source software to the developer and Java EE deployment community. Get and try it out yourself, the Java EE 5 SDK is at http://GlassFish.dev.java.net

Posted at 11:18AM May 25, 2006 by rlee in Sun  |  Comments[1]