BEA Expedites SOA with World's Fastest JVM; Scorching Sun's HotSpot

BEAWORLD 2005, SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS), a world leader in enterprise infrastructure software, today announced that JRockit(R) is hotter than ever before. When deploying SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) on a Java Virtual Machine (JVM), nothing comes close to matching the reliability, scalability, manageability and simplicity of JRockit. And BEA has the benchmarks to prove it.

In August, BEA announced that WebLogic Server(R) 9.0 and JRockit 5.0* smoked the competition with a record 1,374.11 jAppServer Operations Per Second (JOPS) and did so using only half of the application server's CPUs and memory required for the previous record. SPECjAppServer2004 is an industry-standard benchmark specifically designed to measure the scalability and performance of Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) technology-based application servers.

Comparing two SPECjbb2000 industry-standard JVM benchmarks from April and June, 2005, on similar systems, JRockit scored 296,179 operations per second (ops/s) against 197,545 ops/s for HotSpot. Both tests were run on eight cores on four chips (two cores per chip), but the HotSpot test used a 14.3 gigabyte heap while the JRockit test used only a 1.8 gigabyte heap.

In plain English, WebLogic Server(R) 9.0 and JRockit 5.0 do more work for half the price, and JRockit can run 50 percent faster than HotSpot with one- eighth the heap size.

TrueCredit (http://www.truecredit.com), a division of TransUnion that offers credit reporting, credit scoring and related financial services to consumers via web-based applications, is a current BEA customer and attests to the performance advantages of JRockit.

"TrueCredit needed a real-time solution for its credit reporting services that could support thousands of users simultaneously," said Scott Metzger, chief technology officer, TrueCredit. "After a detailed review of several possible deployment platforms, we selected Intel Itanium 2-based enterprise servers and the BEA JRockit JVM to develop and deploy its WebLogic applications. Because JRockit is optimized to run on Intel platforms, we were assured superior performance and application availability without spending a lot of money on proprietary UNIX hardware."

JRockit is the highest performance JVM and optimized to run on Intel Xeon and Intel Itanium 2 Servers, and the software's performance superiority is driving rapid adoption throughout the industry. In terms of application servers running JRockit on Intel Itanium hardware, JBoss recommends it, Oracle certifies it for the Linux platform, and both Redhat and SuSe distribute it. While these vendors do employ other JVMs, their support of JRockit speaks volumes about the software's performance, optimization and safety.

Vinit "Vinny" Carpenter, a developer and publisher of Vinny Carpenter's Blog (http://www.j2eegeek.com/blog), has been a JRockit user for three years and is scheduled to participate in a BEAWorld panel discussion, hosted by Bruce Graham, vice president of worldwide consulting, BEA Systems, Inc. The panel is scheduled for Tuesday, Sept. 27, at the Santa Clara Convention Center.

"I've played with most of the JVMs out there over the years and settled on JRockit because it's fast, stable and efficient," said Carpenter. "As companies make the shift to SOA, JRockit is perfectly positioned to adapt and respond to developers' needs."

"It is gratifying to see such an aggressive uptake of JRockit," said Guy Churchward, general manager, Java Runtime Products Group (JRPG), BEA Systems, Inc. "The focus we've given to mission-critical server-side Java application deployment with rock solid reliability, granular instrumentation and industry leading performance was intended to help provide businesses with the surest way to achieve a fast, successful SOA implementation."

Of course BEA knows that speed, reliability, simplicity and market share are meaningless without a strong developer community and developer relevant features, and BEA has one of the best. JRockit features include run-time analyzer and memory leak detection tools that provide production diagnostics with little or no impact to production systems while providing developers with the capability to pinpoint issues down to the line of source code. This tool makes it easy for developers to find and correct very small or very slow memory leaks that prove almost impossible and extremely costly to replicate in development and test environments.

Dev2Dev is a community by developers for developers, loaded with blogs, newsgroups, product information, code sharing, feature articles and online training. Share a JRockit story on Dev2Dev. BEA has started an area where JRockit users can talk about their user experiences running the software on Intel(R) architecture-based platforms.

BEA JRockit 5.0 has been specifically architected for use by large-scale, mission-critical, server-side applications running on high-performing Intel processor-based servers. The latest software release includes 64-bit support for the Intel Xeon processor. Featuring a range of state-of-the-art capabilities, JRockit 5.0 is designed to help customers deploy their applications quickly and efficiently so they can achieve optimal performance. Developers using JRockit 5.0 can aim for higher levels of productivity, manageability, performance and stability. For more information and to download a copy today, please visit http://dev2dev.bea.com/jrockit/ . About BEAWorld

BEAWorld is the annual infrastructure software technology conference designed to provide critical insights, hands on instruction, best-practice strategies, and opportunities for interaction with like-minded professionals, industry leaders, visionaries and expert practitioners.

In addition to working to make SOA a successful reality, BEAWorld delivers the latest information on BEA's infrastructure technologies including BEA Tuxedo(R), BEA WebLogic(R), BEA AquaLogic(TM) and a Partner Showcase to highlight the latest and greatest developments from the extensive BEA partner community. To register or receive more information about the Santa Clara event, please visit http://www.bea.com/beaworld.

Additional events are scheduled to be held throughout the year in the following cities: London (Oct. 11-12); Paris (Oct. 13-14); Prague (Oct. 18- 19); Tokyo (Oct. 25-26); and Beijing (Dec. 7-8). About SPEC

SPEC is a non-profit organization that establishes, maintains and endorses standardized benchmarks to measure the performance of the newest generation of high-performance computers. Its membership comprises leading computer hardware and software vendors, universities, and research organizations worldwide. Steve Realmuto, a senior software engineer for BEA, is on the Board of Directors. For complete details on benchmark results and the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation, please see http://www.spec.org/ . About SPECjAppServer2004

Created by SPEC, the SPECjAppServer2004 benchmark was developed to measure the performance of Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) application servers. New elements in the benchmark include a modified workload and features that stress more of the capabilities of J2EE application servers. The benchmark tests performance for a representative J2EE application and each of the components that make up the application environment, including hardware, application server software, JVM software, database software, JDBC drivers and the system network. It was developed by SPEC's Java subcommittee, which includes BEA, Borland, Darmstadt University of Technology, HP, IBM, Intel, Oracle, Pramati, Sun Microsystems and Sybase. About SPECjbb2000

SPECjbb2000 (Java Business Benchmark) is SPEC's first benchmark for evaluating the performance of server-side Java. Joining the client-side SPECjvm98, SPECjbb2000 continues the SPEC tradition of giving Java users the most objective and representative benchmark for measuring a system's ability to run Java applications. About BEA

BEA Systems, Inc. is a world leader in enterprise infrastructure software, providing standards-based platforms to accelerate the secure flow of information and services. BEA product lines -- WebLogic(R), Tuxedo(R), JRockit(R) and the new AquaLogic(TM) family of Service Infrastructure -- help customers reduce IT complexity and successfully deploy Service-Oriented Architectures to improve business agility and efficiency. For more information please visit http://www.bea.com. * Running the SPECjAppServer2004 benchmark on five HP ProLiant DL380 G4 two-way 64-bit Intel(R) Xeon(TM) processor application server systems and a 12-way HP Integrity Intel(R) Itanium(R) 2 processor database server. NOTE: BEA, Built on BEA, Jolt, Joltbeans, Steelthread, Top End, Tuxedo, BEA WebLogic Server, BEA JRockit, BEA Liquid Data for WebLogic, and WebLogic are registered trademarks of BEA Systems, Inc. BEA AquaLogic, BEA AquaLogic Data Services Platform, BEA AquaLogic Enterprise Security, BEA AquaLogic Service Bus, BEA dev2dev Subscriptions, BEA eLink, BEA MessageQ, BEA WebLogic Communications Platform, BEA WebLogic Enterprise, BEA WebLogic Enterprise Platform, BEA WebLogic Enterprise Security, BEA WebLogic Express, BEA WebLogic Integration, BEA WebLogic Java Adapter for Mainframe, BEA WebLogic JDriver, BEA WebLogic Log Central, BEA WebLogic Network Gatekeeper, BEA WebLogic Platform, BEA WebLogic Portal, BEA WebLogic SIP Server, BEA WebLogic WorkGroup Edition, and BEA WebLogic Workshop are trademarks of BEA Systems, Inc. BEA Mission Critical Support is a service mark of BEA Systems, Inc. All other company and product names may be the subject of intellectual property rights reserved by third parties. For More Information: News hotline:

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