18 Enhancing Performance

This chapter describes EclipseLink performance features, provided by EclipseLink, and how to monitor and optimize EclipseLink-enabled applications.

This chapter contains the following sections:

• Performance Features

• Monitoring and Optimizing EclipseLink-Enabled Applications

Use Case

Users want to improve the performance of their EclipseLink-enabled application.

Solution

EclipseLink provides many configuration options that can improve performance, such as caching. In addition, there are ways to improve the performance of specific functions, such as using Join Fetching for queries.

Components

• EclipseLink 2.4 or later.

Sample

See the following EclipseLink samples for related information:

• http://wiki.eclipse.org/EclipseLink/Performance

• http://wiki.eclipse.org/EclipseLink/Examples/JPA/Performance

• http://wiki.eclipse.org/EclipseLink/Examples/JPA/Monitoring