Tomcat is a very popular and widely used application server. In this article I will show how Tomcat users can get some good performance boosts by using the Eclipse OpenJ9 JVM. In different articles, we observed that OpenJDK8-OpenJ9 performed better with Startup and Footprint compared to OpenJDK8-HotSpot. Now with Shared Cache enabled by default with…
Did you know… that just by using OpenJ9 as your runtime, applications using deserialization could gain a huge performance advantage? Background Java serialization provides a way to easily convert a sequence of bytes to and from a java.lang.Object. One step that occurs during the process of deserialization is loading the class specified by the class…
With contributions from Hang Shao. By now you’ve no doubt heard of Eclipse OpenJ9 and its reputation for starting applications faster and using less memory. If not, you should visit the Eclipse OpenJ9 Performance page. The Shared Class Cache (SCC) capability is one of the main reasons why OpenJ9 can start faster and use less…
