Improving network traffic acquisition and processing with the Java Virtual Machine

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruediger Gad ◽  
Martin Kappes ◽  
Inmaculada Medina-Bulo
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Machine ◽  
Network Traffic ◽  
Java Virtual Machine

scholarly journals JINDY: A java library to support invokedynamic

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Conde ◽  
Francisco Ortin
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Machine ◽  
Programming Language ◽  
Java Virtual Machine ◽  
Memory Consumption ◽  
Java Programming ◽  
Abstraction Level ◽  
Java Platform ◽  
Runtime Performance ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Java Library

Java 7 has included the new invokedynamic opcode in the Java virtual machine. This new instruction allows the user to define method linkage at runtime. Once the link is established, the virtual machine performs its common optimizations, providing better runtime performance than reflection. However, this feature has not been offered at the abstraction level of the Java programming language. Since the functionality of the new opcode is not provided as a library, the existing languages in the Java platform can only use it at the assembly level. For this reason, we have developed the JINDY library that offers invokedynamic to any programming language in the Java platform. JINDY supports three modes of use, establishing a trade-off between runtime performance and flexibility. A runtime performance and memory consumption evaluation is presented. We analyze the efficiency of JINDY compared to reflection, the MethodHandle class in Java 7 and the Dynalink library. The memory and performance costs compared to the invokedynamic opcode are also measured.

Web Application Server Clustering with Distributed Java Virtual machine

2010 ◽  
pp. 658-681
Author(s):  
King Tin Lam ◽  
Cho-Li Wang
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Machine ◽  
Web Application ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Parallel Execution ◽  
Java Virtual Machine ◽  
Enterprise Application ◽  
Space Design ◽  
Fine Grain ◽  
Coherence Protocols ◽  
Programming Effort

Web application servers, being today’s enterprise application backbone, have warranted a wealth of J2EE-based clustering technologies. Most of them however need complex configurations and excessive programming effort to retrofit applications for cluster-aware execution. This chapter proposes a clustering approach based on distributed Java virtual machine (DJVM). A DJVM is a collection of extended JVMs that enables parallel execution of a multithreaded Java application over a cluster. A DJVM achieves transparent clustering and resource virtualization, extolling the virtue of single-system-image (SSI). The authors evaluate this approach through porting Apache Tomcat to their JESSICA2 DJVM and identify scalability issues arising from fine-grain object sharing coupled with intensive synchronizations among distributed threads. By leveraging relaxed cache coherence protocols, we are able to conquer the scalability barriers and harness the power of our DJVM’s global object space design to significantly outstrip existing clustering techniques for cache-centric web applications.

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