Paul Hohensee is a senior staff engineer at Sun Microsystems where he is the Java Platform Standard Edition JVM Technical Lead. His primary focus is JVM performance along with hardware and platform support for Java and other dynamic languages. Earlier in his career he worked on dynamic binary translation as well as optimizing compilers and libraries for the first symmetric multiprocessors.
Faced with the demands of mission-critical applications, many enterprise developers have pushed the Java language and the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) to the limit. The most common issue seen in transactional environments is achieving predictable response time or latency - in other words...Mar. 2, 2009 08:35 AM EST Reads: 10,723
