One of the biggest challenges in developing large applications for the Java^TM platform is to make the application meets its performance criteria. This chapter shows you how to track down performance bottlenecks and improve application performance.

• Improving Performance by Design
• Connection Pooling
• Performance Features and Tools
• Performance Analysis
• Caching Client/Server Applications

In a Rush?

This table links you directly to specific performance tuning topics.

Topic	Section
Improving Performance by Design	Improving Applet Download Speed Thread Pooling
Connection Pooling	Wrapper Classes Connection Driver Connection Pool Deadlocks and Hangs Closing Connections Example Application
Performance Features and Tools	Java VM Features JIT compilers Third-Party Tools
Performance Analysis	Profiling Analyze a Program
Caching Client/Server Applications	Caching One Object Caching Many Objects