Month: May 2020

Manipulating the Class File with AsmTools

Posted on by chengjin76

A Java class file is represented with a hardware & OS independent binary format to be loaded & interpreted at runtime. Except the magic number (the first 4 bytes such as CAFEBABE) and the version number (the 8th byte) which are visible or can be manually edited in a hexadecimal way, modifying the majority of…

Startup Performance of Tomcat in Docker

Posted on by kusuma chalasani

Tomcat startup time is reduced by ~30% by enabling the Shared Class Cache (SCC) in the Docker images. In my earlier blog , I measured the Performance of Tomcat with Tradelite7 Application without using any docker images and we saw the boost of Startup time with default Shared Cache in OpenJ9. In this article, let’s…