Performance Track

2108  Overview of Core SDP for Java  
Michael Rozlog — Borland

Type: Regular Session. Level: Beginning.
Learn how to use all of the Borland suite of Java tools to help streamline development. Understand how to use the Optimizeit suite to resolve pesky errors. Learn how to use Together Audits and Metrics to reduce complexity and help to establish good testing processes. See both Request Analyzer and ServerTrace used to increase the performance of J2EE applications.
Prerequisites: None.
2108 Tuesday, November 8, 2005 — 1:30pm - 2:45pm
Room: Continental Parlor 3 

2124  Configuring InterBase for Maximum Performance  
Bill Todd — The Database Group, Inc.

Type: Regular Session. Level: Beginning.
This session focuses on configuring InterBase for maximum performance with particular emphasis on new features including group commit, database flush, database linger, the 131,000 page maximum cache size, the 32k maximum page size, and the directives in the ibconfig file that affect performance.
Prerequisites: None.
2124 Wednesday, November 9, 2005 — 9:30am - 10:45am
Room: Continental Parlor 7

3124  J2EE Performance Tuning How-to  
Michael Rozlog — Borland

Type: Regular Session. Level: Intermediate.
(This session has been moved to a Birds-of-a-Feather session.)
Learn how to find and fix errors and decrease the total time to problem resolution using the industry standard ServerTrace. Understand how to configure and use ServerTrace to find pesky errors that are usually blammed on poor performance or bad coding.
Prerequisites: None.
3124 canceled 

3138  Accelerating File Check-outs with the StarTeamMPX Cache Agent
Randy Guck — Borland

Type: Regular Session. Level: Intermediate.
The StarTeamMPX Cache Agent provides a performance boost to StarTeam file check-out operations. Even remote development teams can experience amazing check-out times from distant StarTeam servers by leveraging Cache Agents. In this session, learn how to set-up and configure Cache Agents, how to use Cache Agent-aware clients, and how to write your own check-out applications that leverage Cache Agents. New Cache Agent features added for the StarTeam 2005 R2 release are discussed, and a study is shown that compares the performance advantages of using Cache Agents.
Prerequisites: Basic StarTeam and programming knowledge.
3138 Wednesday, November 9, 2005 — 4:45pm - 6:00pm
Room: Continental Parlor 9

4108  Advanced Enterprise Debugging Techniques
Neal Ford — ThoughtWorks

Type: Regular Session. Level: Advanced.
This session discusses techniques and tools for debugging enterprise applications.
Prerequisites: Experience with J2EE applications.
4108 Thursday, November 10, 2005 — 1:15pm - 2:30pm
Room: Continental Parlor 3 

4118  High Speed Multi-threaded Database Applications
Christian Wilkerson — iBASEt

Type: Regular Session. Level: Advanced.
Delphi greatly simplifies writing multi-threaded Windows applications. However, mastering multi-threaded programming can be a monster task. This presentation demonstrates not only how to develop multi-threaded code, but how to develop it safely and reliably.
Prerequisites: Requires a working knowledge of database programming.
4118 Thursday, November 10, 2005 — 1:15pm - 2:30pm
Room: Continental Ballroom 5

9008  StarTeam Birds-of-a-Feather  
John Sileski — Borland

Type: Birds-of-a-Feather. Level: All.
The topic is StarTeam, but the agenda is open. Come to discuss common issues, ideas, and solutions with other attendees and StarTeam product staff.
Prerequisites: None.
9008 Wednesday, November 9, 2005 — 12:30pm - 1:15pm
Room: Continental Parlor 9 

9200  J2EE Performance Tuning How-to  
Michael Rozlog — Borland

Type: Birds-of-a-Feather. Level: Intermediate.
Learn how to find and fix errors and decrease the total time to problem resolution using the industry standard ServerTrace. Understand how to configure and use ServerTrace to find pesky errors that are usually blammed on poor performance or bad coding.
Prerequisites: None.
9200 Wednesday, November 9, 2005 — 12:30pm - 1:15pm
Room: Continental Parlor 3