The Quarkus framework has gained tremendous popularity in the last few months. This success is due in part to the runtime characteristics expressed as Supersonic, Subatomic Java on the project’s website. In other words, Quarkus is extremely fast to start up and extremely light in terms of memory footprint when run in “native mode” (native mode is essentially…
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…
It’s complicated… Relationship verification is very important, but can we be a little lazy about it? Java bytecode verification entails several processes, one of which is class relationship verification. Java Virtual Machine (JVM) startup includes any JVM or application setup preceding the actual execution of the program, and one of these steps is verification. Consequently,…
In the cloud environment, you need to bring up your microservices applications quickly and frequently in respond to user demands. Therefore, having a JVM that starts up faster is important. Eclipse OpenJ9 is a JVM that has a fast start-up performance and a low memory footprint. This post outlines how to improve the start-up performance…
Class sharing is a feature in Eclipse OpenJ9 that improves your application’s startup performance. It also reduces the memory footprint if the same cache shared across multiple JVMs. Traditionally, this feature is turned on by explicitly specifying option -Xshareclasses in the command line. Default Class Sharing Class data sharing is enabled by default for bootstrap…
