Anatomy of a Successful Java Benchmark

IBM ^ Performance Technical Report™Movex NextGen and iSeries :Anatomy of a Successful™Java BenchmarkIn May, 2001 Intentia Research and Development ran official benchmarks oftheir Movex NextGen ERP on the iSeries platform. The results showed MovexNextGen to scale over 1 million fully processed transactions per hour. MovexNextGen is the first 100% pure Java ERP Application. Scott A. Moore, Software Engineer, IBM Rochester1-507-253-0401samoore@us.ibm.comJanuary 2, 2002©2002 International Business Machines Corporation, all rights reservedMovex NextGen Delivers Performance in an iSeries Java Package Page 1IBM ^ Performance Technical ReportAbstract®Intentia and IBM Rochester have had a long history together. Intentia International, based inStockholm, Sweden, was founded in 1984. During the last 18 years, their flagship product,Movex, has grown to be a major player in the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) arena.Initially, Movex was written entirely in the RPG programming language. Over the last three™years, Intentia has ported their RPG version of Movex to a 100% pure Java solution. The100% pure Java solution has demonstrated excellent scalability and performance during officialIntentia benchmarks performed at the IBM Rochester Customer Benchmark Center. TheMovex mixed load Benchmark crowned years of performance work with the Java application. Executive SummaryIn 1998 Intentia Research and Development underwent a huge development effort to ...