Foreword

I remember quite clearly the first time I met the JRockit team. It was JavaOne 1999 and I was there representing WebLogic. Here were these Swedish college kids in black T-shirts describing how they would build the world's best server VM. I was interested in hearing their story as the 1.2 release of HotSpot had been delayed again and we'd been running into no end of scalability problems with the Classic VM. However I walked away from the booth thinking that, while these guys were smart, they had no idea what they were biting off.

Fast-forward a few years. BEA buys JRockit and I become the technical liaison between the WebLogic and JRockit teams. By now JRockit has developed into an excellent offering—providing great scalability and performance ...

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