Designing WebSphere application server for performance: An evolutionary approach

IBM Systems Journal

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 327-350

  Willenborg, Ruth ^a   Brown, Kyle ^a   Cuomo, Gennaro ^a  

^a IBM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; HTTP; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER);

CONTENT CACHING; DATA REPLICATION; SCALABILITY; WEB APPLICATION SERVER;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 3142716011     PISSN: 00188670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1147/sj.432.0327     Document Type: Article

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