Developing Tools

Dr. Shiping Chen gave us some ideas of developing tools that we could use for this project. I did some research on these tools.

GlassFish

GlassFish is an open-source application sever project started by Sun Microsystems for the Java EE platform.

The advantages of GlassFish:

• Free community-supported application server
• Full Java EE 6 platform support
• The best open source application server in the industry today
• Next-generation modular and extensible architecture (OSGi)
• Enterprise reliability and performance with full clustering

GlassFish can be downloaded from here. There are some documentations that can help us start.

Apache OpenEJB

OpenEJB is an open-source, embeddable and lightweight EJB Container System and EJB Server.

The advantages of OpenEJB:

• Allows for easy testing and debugging in IDEs such as Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA or NetBeans with no plugins required. 
• Usable in ordinary JUnit or other style test cases without complicated setup or external processes. 
• Complete support for Glassfish descriptors allowing those users to embedded test their applications. 
• Incredibly flexible JNDI name support allows you to specify formats at macro and micro levels and imitate the format of other vendors. 

OpenEJB can be downloaded from here. There are some documentations that can help us start.

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Reading materials

Dr Shiping Chen provided some reading materials for us to get start. The documents are listed as below:

TPC-C website: http://www.tpc.org/tpcc/
TPC-C benchmark on HP ProLiant servers and server blades : ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/c-products/servers/benchmarks/HP_ProLiant_tpcc_Overview.pdf
Standard benchmarks for database systems: http://t.cn/zOfp7z8
TPC-C benchmarks Standard Specification: http://t.cn/zOfph0X

Testing

This is my firt post, just to test everything is working.