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Trade 6 Benchmark (IBM Trade Performance Benchmark Sample for WebSphere Application Server)

Description:

Trade 6 is the fourth generation of the WebSphere end-to-end benchmark and performance sample application. The Trade benchmark is designed and developed to cover the significantly expanding programming model and performance technologies associated with WebSphere Application Server. This application provides a real-world workload, enabling performance research and verification test of the JavaTM 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EETM) 1.4 implementation in WebSphere Application Server, including key performance components and features.

Overall, the Trade application is primarily used for performance research on a wide range of software components and platforms. This latest revision of Trade builds off of Trade 3, by moving from the J2EE

1.3programming model to the J2EE 1.4 model that is supported by WebSphere Application Server V6.0. Trade 6 adds DistributedMap based data caching in addition to the command bean caching that is used in Trade 3. Otherwise, the implementation and workflow of the Trade application remains unchanged.

Trade 6 also supports the recent DB2® V8.2 and Oracle® 10g databases. The new design of Trade 6 enables performance research on J2EE 1.4 including the new Enterprise JavaBeansTM (EJBTM) 2.1 component architecture, message-driven beans, transactions (1-phase, 2-phase commit) and Web services (SOAP, WSDL, JAX-RPC, enterprise Web services). Trade 6 also drives key WebSphere Application Server performance components such as dynamic caching, WebSphere Edge Server, and EJB caching.

NOTE: Trade 6 is an updated version of Trade 3 which takes advantage of the new JMS messaging support available with WebSphere 6.0. The application itself is essentially the same as Trade 3 so direct comparisons can be made between Trade 6 and Trade 3. However, it is important to note that direct comparisons between Trade2 and Trade3 are NOT valid. As a result of the redesign and additional components that were added to Trade 3, Trade 3 is more complex and is a heavier application than the previous Trade 2 versions.

Figure 6. 1 Topology of the Trade Application

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