Ashish Patel

Its been a very busy few months, I can hardly believe March is almost over too!

The IBM Performance Optimization Toolkit (IPOT) team has been hard at work on a release, however, what good is hard work without a conference? We’re going to be giving a demonstration and a short talk on the toolkit at this year’s EclipseCon 2006 event. This will be the first time the toolkit is displayed here.

Our focus for the conference will be on how we utilize the Eclipse Test and Performance Tools Platform (TPTP). Unfortunately, you won’t find me at the conference because I’ll be in Toronto incubating another next-generate technology this week You’ll have to wait to find out what that is ;)….anywho, here is the abstract for the presentation one of my teammates will be giving:

The Eclipse Test and Performance Tools Project (TPTP) is an extensible framework for building advanced profiling and monitoring tools, and the IBM Performance Optimization Toolkit (IPOT) is one such tool. Leveraging the TPTP data collection framework, IPOT can help testers and developers determine the causes of performance problems in their J2EE applications, and is a powerful integration point where profiling data collected from various sources can merge into a single problem determination work flow. A step by step by demonstration will be given to illustrate the process of how users could detect performance degradations in their distributed applications, and then retroactively find out the possible causes by leveraging the capabilities provided by various tools in an integrated IPOT environment. The capability of collecting live trace and resource data will also be demonstrated, and TPTP, IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager (ITCAM), IBM Tivoli Monitoring (ITM), and IBM Rational Performance Tester (RPT) will be used in this demonstration.