While perusing TheServerSide.com, I came across an article on data caching and performance. Since I have been involved with this at work quite a bit lately in our very large scale application, I take every chance I get to read articles talking about caching algorithms and their effect on the performance of a system. This article introduces the Flyweight design pattern to cache a list of products. Seems to me though that this is not needed in the context of the project I am working on due to the use of Entity Beans which are cached on the server themselves. This may be a lighter weight approach though, but without the ease of use of the CMP Entity Beans.
The toy that I found from this article is Jakarta's JMeter, which may prove useful when I start to do some of the performance analysis for my project. Not that I have time now to work on it as it is, but once performance measuring becomes a priority, I'll have to remember to take a look at this.
Posted by doug at July 6, 2004 01:56 PM