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Testing Update: ESB Performance

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Each of the ESB products I'm testing is required to build out our pre-defined scenario which includes a number of connections to external systems, including OpenJMS.

After a first attempt at performance testing, OpenJMS went Out. The. Window. OpenJMS couldn't handle more than one connection from a machine and dragged performance down so much it was almost - ALMOST - funny.

So it's out. Then the Exchange server started having a cow. So we substituted our Spirent Reflector to simulate an e-mail server. Ahhh...the mail server is so much faster when it isn't actually trying to do anything I'm thinking that using the Reflector as our corporate mail server would cut down on the amount of SPAM I get every day, but then again it would cut out all e-mail so maybe that isn't such a good idea...

After more than a day of playing around with all the variables I finally have a scenario configured in two different products that can be tested without any of the external systems causing bottlenecks.

So I did.

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