EJB Performance Measurement Framework

This paper addresses challenges involved with measuring the performance of an Enterprise Java Bean (EJB) based system in a production environment. These challenges include specific requirements for the measuring system to be non-intrusive, have low-overhead, and to be able to provide monitoring and visibility to all the business objects in the production system. A prototype EJB Performance Measurement Framework capable of meeting these requirements is described. The proposed measurement framework also has an ability to combine JDBC monitoring with performance statistics measurements thus giving a broad overview of the production system’s performance.