EAS311 Benchmark Comparison of J2EE Application Servers

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EAS311 Benchmark Comparison of J2EE Application
Servers
Kashif AhmedSr. Consultant PowerObjectskashif_at_
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AGENDA

• Introduction to J2EE and EJBs
• Why Application Servers?
• Introduction to Application Servers
• Installation Requirements
• Interactive Demo
• Comparison Matrix
• Cost Comparison
• Performance Comparison
• Conclusion and Summary
• References
• Questions

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INTRODUCTION TO J2EE AND EJBs

• J2EE Environment
• What is Enterprise Java Bean (EJB)
• Basic EJB Environment
• Types of EJBs
• Why EJBs

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INTRODUCTION TO J2EE AND EJBs
J2EE Environment

• J2EE Server Overview
• The J2EE platform is essentially a distributed
  application server environment a Java
  environment that provides the following
• A runtime infrastructure for hosting applications
• A set of Java extension APIs to build
  applications

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INTRODUCTION TO J2EE AND EJBs
What is Enterprise Java Bean (EJB)?

• Enterprise Java Bean (EJB)
• Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) is architecture for
  server-side component based distributed
  applications written in Java.
• It provides an environment in which components
  from several manufacturers can be assembled into
  a working application.
• Enterprise beans are specialized components that
  can encapsulate session information, workflow,
  and persistent data.
• The EJB specification provides a solution for a
  clear separation of the business logic and the
  details

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INTRODUCTION TO J2EE AND EJBs
Basic EJB Environment

• The EJB components run inside the container of an
  EJB server.
• The container has the connection to the database
  or to other components
• An EJB client can access the EJBs from the same
  Java Virtual Machine (JVM) or from another JVM
  over remote interfaces
• The EJB home component is comparable to a factory
  for the EJB objects.
• The EJB objects retrieved from the home
  components can be also local or remote objects

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INTRODUCTION TO J2EE AND EJBs
Basic EJB Environment

• An enterprise bean has three parts
• The home interface is used by the client to
  create and discard beans.
• The remote interface is used by the client to
  execute the beans business methods.
• The implementation or bean class is where the
  beans business methods and callback methods are
  implemented. The client never invokes these
  methods directly they are invoked by the bean
  container

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INTRODUCTION TO J2EE AND EJBs
Types of EJBs
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INTRODUCTION TO J2EE AND EJBs
Why EJBs?

• ISSUE
• The application developers are confronted with
  many challenges. Some of the most important ones
  are managing concurrency, persistence and
  transactions. As a result, the developers have to
  either develop proprietary code or buy supporting
  frameworks.
• SOLUTION
• These problems are solved by using enterprise
  beans. The use of enterprise beans allow
  developers to focus on the business logic and
  release them from coding infrastructure and
  middleware logic, and developers become more
  productive and efficient.
• As with most other technologies, enterprise beans
  do not provide the unique solution to all
  problems. Using enterprise beans has advantages
  and disadvantages. However, the advantages
  outweigh the disadvantages, especially for more
  complex applications that require a sophisticated
  robust and distributed persistent model.

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WHY APPLICATOIN SERVERS?

• Application servers offer server-side support for
  developing and deploying business logic.
• Business logic that may be located on the server
  or, more often, partitioned across client and
  server.
• Enterprises rely daily on server-side business
  processing, ranging from mainframe transaction
  systems to client/server DBMS stored procedures.

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WHY APPLICATOIN SERVERS?

• Running business processes on the server provides
  the following
• Re-use
• A variety of client applications (HTML-only, Java
  applets, COM components, etc.) can share the
  same business logic
• Intellectual property protection
• Sensitive business logic often includes or
  manages trade secrets that could potentially be
  reverse engineered.
• Security of business logic
• By leaving the logic on the server, user access
  can be controlled dynamically, revoked at any
  time.
• Security of network communications
• Application servers allow use of
  internet-standard secure protocols like SSL or
  HTTPS in place of less secure proprietary DBMS
  protocols

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WHY APPLICATOIN SERVERS?

• Manageability
• Server-side applications are easier to monitor,
  control, and update.
• Performance
• Database intensive business logic will often
  perform much better when located near the
  database, saving network traffic and access
  latency.
• Download time
• INet (intranet extranet internet) clients
  most often require access to many different
  business processes that could require substantial
  network bandwidth and client memory to download
  all logic to the client.
• Compute load
• Running compute-intensive applications on servers
  saves client cycles.

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INTRODUCTION TO APPLICATON SERVRS
BEA WebLogic 7.0
IBM WebSphere 5.0
Sybase EAServer 4.2
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INTRODUCTION TO APPLICATON SERVRS
Sybase EAServer 4.2

• Summary
• EAServer has open standards-based support for
  multiple component models and innovative new
  performance features and tuning options. Provides
  various tools and utilities for an easy setup,
  deployment, and configuration. Its administration
  capabilities are not wizard-based but still
  powerful.

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INTRODUCTION TO APPLICATON SERVRS
BEA WebLogic 7.0

• Summary
• WebLogic offers full J2EE support as well as
  providing support for prominent component models
  (COM). Also they seem to come out with features
  ahead of those becoming part of standards giving
  them a status of a pioneer in server side java
  development. Product offers improved
  development, deployment, and administration
  support.

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INTRODUCTION TO APPLICATON SERVRS
IBM WebSphere 5.0

• Summary
• WebSphere provides a comprehensive array of
  offerings for the J2EE platform including
  complete tools support. Also provides
  sophisticated management tools (extensive
  integration with Tivoli line), includes powerful
  features for self-optimizing, self-configuring,
  self-protecting and RAS/Troubleshooting

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INSTALLATION REQUIREMENTS
Sybase EAServer 4.2

• Minimum Hardware Software prerequisites
• (Note The installation program requires 170MB of
  disk space.)
• Intel(R) Pentium(R) 90 MHz processor minimum or
  Higher with CD drive
• 32 MB RAM minimum (64 MB RAM is recommended)
• Disk space
• It requires 400MB minimum disk space for
  installing Sybase Enterprise Application Server
  with installation type FULL.
• Display resolution
• 800 x 600 display minimum (1024 x 768
  recommended)
• It supports following O.S.
• Windows(R) 2K
• WindowXP
• WinNT 4 w/ Service Pack 5 or higher
• Sun Solaris 2.6 or 2.8 requires Sun patches
• HP-UX 11.0 requires HP patches
• IBM AIX 4.3.3 and 5.1.

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INSTALLATION REQUIREMENTS
BEA WebLogic 7.0

• Minimum Hardware Software prerequisites
• Intel(R) Pentium(R) II processor minimum (Pentium
  200 MHz or higher is recommended)
• 256 MB RAM minimum (512 MB RAM is recommended)
• Disk space
• You will require 170 MB minimum disk space for
  installing WebLogic Application Server.
• Display resolution
• 800 x 600 display minimum (1024 x 768
  recommended)
• It supports following O.S.
• Windows(R) 2K Server / Advanced Server
• WindowsXP
• WinNT 4 w/ Service Pack 6 or higher
• Red Hat Linux
• SuSE, Version 7
• UP UX
• IBM AIX , IBM AS/400

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INSTALLATION REQUIREMENTS
IBM WebSphere 5.0

• Minimum Hardware Software prerequisites
• Intel(R) Pentium(R) processor minimum (Pentium
  500 MHz or higher is recommended) with CD-ROM.
• 256 MB RAM minimum (512 MB RAM is recommended)
• Disk space
• You will require 520 MB minimum disk space for
  installing WebSphere Application Server
  (including IBM Software Development Kit).
• Display resolution
• 800 x 600 display minimum (1024 x 768
  recommended)
• 800 x 600 display minimum ( 1024 x 768
  recommended )
• It supports following O.S.
• Windows(R) 2K w/ Service pack 3 or higher
• Solaris ver. 8 or 9
• WinNT 4 w/ Service Pack 6 or higher
• Red Hat Linux, Version 8 or SuSE, Version 7.2
• HP-UX ver 1.1 with Quality Pack of December 2002
• AIX version 4.3.3 with the 4330-10 recommended
  maintenance package.

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INTERACTIVE DEMO
BEA WebLogic 7.0
IBM WebSphere 5.0
Sybase EAServer 4.2
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INTERACTIVE DEMO
Sybase EAServer 4.2
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INTERACTIVE DEMO
Sybase EAServer 4.2
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INTERACTIVE DEMO
BEA WebLogic 7.0
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INTERACTIVE DEMO
IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.0
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INTERACTIVE DEMO
IBM WebSphere 5.0 Test Environment
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COMPARISON MATRIX
Java and Industry Standards

• All three application servers support and offer
  almost same java and Industry standards.

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COMPARISON MATRIX
Server-side Component Model
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COMPARISON MATRIX
Platforms Supported
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COMPARISON MATRIX
EJB Features
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COMPARISON MATRIX
Security Features

• Most of the Security features are common in all
  three application Servers.

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COMPARISON MATRIX
Performance and Scalability Features

• All of them provides different way to increase
  performance and scalability.

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COMPARISON MATRIX
Performance and Scalability Features
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COMPARISON MATRIX
Performance and Scalability Features
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COMPARISON MATRIX
Performance and Scalability Features
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COMPARISON MATRIX
Development and Deployment Aids
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COMPARISON MATRIX
Server Administration
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COMPARISON MATRIX
OEM Features
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COST COMPARISON
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COST COMPARISON
Sybase EAServer 4.2

• Enterprise Edition
• 20,000 (28,000 UNIX) Concurrent and per CPU
  pricing
• Advanced Edition
• 7500, (11,250 UNIX) Concurrent and /CPU
  pricing.
• Small Business Edition
• 2995 /Server pricing only.

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COST COMPARISON
Concurrent User License Vs per CPU / processor
license

• Per CPU license
• license is based on per processor, if you have
  dual(2)  processor system then you need to buy
  two licenses, if you have quad (4) processor
  powerful machine then you need to buy 4 licenses.
  
• Concurrent User license
• start with 50 concurrent users and then
  increments.
• If you have powerful dual(2) or quad (4)
  processor machine and 's of users are not too
  many then concurrent Users license is preferred.
• for example.
• For a QUARD (4) processor system Advance Edition
  license
• per CPU for 100 users 4 x 7,500  30,000
• Concurrent USER license for 100 users 2 x
  7,500 15,000

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COST COMPARISON
BEA WebLogic Application Server 7.0

• Enterprise Edition ( clustered / Premium )
• 17,000 (Win, Linux) only per CPU.
• (Unlimited Users)
• Advanced Edition ( Base Version - Advantage )
• 10,000 (Win, Linux) only per CPU. (Unlimited
  Users)
• - You get Developers' Kit for 4 developers Free
  ( WAS 2,500)

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COST COMPARISON
IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.0

• Enterprise Edition
• 27,000 (Win, Linux) only per CPU.
• (Unlimited Users)
• Advanced Edition
• 12,000 (Win, Linux) only per CPU.
• (Unlimited Users)
• Express Edition
• 2000 (Win, Linux) per only per CPU.
• (Unlimited Users)

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COST COMPARISON GRAPH
EAServer, WebLogic, WebSphere
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PERFORMANCE COMPARISON
Server Startup and Shutdown time and memory usage.
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SUMMARY / CONCLUSION
Conclusion

• It cant be said that which application server is
  the best and which server a company should used
  for J2EE Application Development because all
  offers full J2EE platform support and selection
  depends on different other factors like
• What existing technical skills developers have?
• How much budget company has to spend on software
  purchase?
• How much hardware resources are available to the
  developer?
• What is the existing development platform?
• What is the time frame for project completion?
• and many more

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REFERENCES
URLs

• Sun J2EE Tutorial
• http//java.sun.com/j2ee/tutorial/1_3-fcs/doc/Ove
  rview2.html
• Enterprise Bean
• http//java.sun.com/j2ee/tutorial/1_3-fcs/doc/EJBC
  oncepts.html
• Enterprise Java Bean Intro
• http//developer.apple.com/techpubs/webobjects/Ent
  erprise_JavaBeans/Introduction/chapter_2_section_2
  .html
• WSAD home page
• http//www-3.ibm.com/software/ad/studioappdev/
• WebSphere related topics
• http//www.websphere-world.com/
• WebSphere Central
• http//www.webspherecentral.com
• IBM RedBooks
• http//www.redbooks.ibm.com/
• Sybase Web Site
• http//www.sybase.com
• (Note comparison matrix is researched by Sybase)
• WebLogic Web Site
• http//www.bea.com

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