%0 Conference Paper %1 Pardal_2012_CLOSER_ToughSTEP %A Pardal, Miguel L. %A Pardal, Joana Paulo %A Marques, José Alves %B 2nd Int'l Conf. on Cloud Computing and Services Science (CLOSER) %D 2012 %K Measurement. Performance, Services, Web %T Improving Web Services performance, one STEP at a time %X Web Services were designed for Enterprise systems. They are a flexible but complex technology, with numerous performance pitfalls for developers. They also have significant overhead when compared with platform-specific solutions (e.g. Java RMI). The end solutions have to combine (virtualized) platform, application framework, and application-specific code. As a result of this complexity, the performance of the final application is often disappointing and requires improvement. This paper describes the implementation of performance tools for an open-source application framework based on the Java platform and presents the findings of a detailed assessment of Web Services performance using the newly developed tools. The challenges, techniques, and lessons learned are relevant beyond the scope of the used framework because widely used open-source libraries were studied as well, namely: Hibernate, JAX-WS, and Log4J.

@inproceedings{Pardal_2012_CLOSER_ToughSTEP, abstract = {Web Services were designed for Enterprise systems. They are a flexible but complex technology, with numerous performance pitfalls for developers. They also have significant overhead when compared with platform-specific solutions (e.g. Java RMI). The end solutions have to combine (virtualized) platform, application framework, and application-specific code. As a result of this complexity, the performance of the final application is often disappointing and requires improvement. This paper describes the implementation of performance tools for an open-source application framework based on the Java platform and presents the findings of a detailed assessment of Web Services performance using the newly developed tools. The challenges, techniques, and lessons learned are relevant beyond the scope of the used framework because widely used open-source libraries were studied as well, namely: Hibernate, JAX-WS, and Log4J.}, added-at = {2012-10-12T00:49:59.000+0200}, author = {Pardal, Miguel L. and Pardal, Joana Paulo and Marques, Jos{\'e} Alves}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/27c9027c7b8e94b5c3fbd7985b6885cbb/miguel.pardal}, booktitle = {2nd Int'l Conf. on Cloud Computing and Services Science (CLOSER)}, interhash = {caf3182e46da63cd998d862c28a30ed9}, intrahash = {7c9027c7b8e94b5c3fbd7985b6885cbb}, keywords = {Measurement. Performance, Services, Web}, month = {April}, timestamp = {2012-10-12T00:50:01.000+0200}, title = {{Improving Web Services performance, one STEP at a time}}, year = 2012 }