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Web Performance Tools

A set of applications that allow stress-testing of a Web server, a Web site, and/or a Web application.


Date Posted: September 26, 2002
Overview

Web Performance Tools has been retired.

Web Performance Tools has been retired because it overlaps with the functionality provided by existing IBM tools. These tools are the Rational Suite TestStudio and the IBM WebSphere Studio Workload Simulator. Further information is available at the preceding links.


About the technology author(s):
Richard Nesbitt is a senior software engineer in IBM's Special Events Web Hosting group. During his career at IBM, he has worked on projects such as IBM's Internet Connection Server, the Lotus Domino Go Webserver, and IBM HTTP Server. For the last three years, Mr. Nesbitt has developed custom applications for hosting of high-volume Web sites; these include tools in the areas of stress testing, intrusion detection, and log analysis, as well as custom, high-performance Web server plug-ins for sports Web serving.

Kevin Vaughan is an advisory software engineer in IBM's WebSphere Application Server Development group. During his career at IBM, he has worked on projects such as IBM's Internet Connection Server, the Lotus Domino Go Web server, and IBM HTTP Server. For the past year, Mr. Vaughan has served as team lead for the WebSphere Web server plug-in and was responsible for the rewriting of the plug-in code that occurred in Version 4.0.

Mark Nesbitt is a software engineer in IBM's Software Group working on IBM HTTP Server. In the last two years, Mr. Nesbitt has worked on development of various IHS modules, including SSL and LDAP authentication. He has also worked on administration server development and installation packaging.


Related technologies

For platform(s):
AIX, Windows NT, Windows 95, Windows 98, Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, Windows 2000

For topics:
Networking, Performance Tool


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