JRockit: Still Way Ahead of Its Competition…

JRockit is still miles ahead of its competitors, both when it comes to speed and manageability/tool support.

Today, JRockit released its latest SPECjbb2000 benchmark (J2EE benchmark), in which it set a new world record, leaving Sun’s HotSpot in the dust…

It also keeps improving its excellent tool support and manageability. Please read Marcus Hirt’s new articles JRockit 5.0 The JVM at Your Fingertips and An Introduction to JRockit Mission Control as well as Staffan Larsen’s article about JRockit’s unique memory leak tool: Memory Leaks, Be Gone!.

Today, there is really only one single valid excuse for not running JRockit and that is if you are deploying on non-intel architecture, and this reason will be terminated in the upcoming releases (with ports to Sparc, HP-UX etc.).

(…and please don’t start rambling about instability again, that was an old (and then I mean really old) problem, the last releases, including the latest one, have been of very high quality - which, in my experience, have had better stability than Sun HotSpot’s comparable versions.)