This is a short presentation I created some time ago that details some of the developmental, procedural, and infrastructure best practices that I discovered while working with various customers.

1. Best Practice Adoption (and lack there-of) John Pape, WebSphere SWAT IBM Software Group Confidential | Date | Other Information, if necessary

3. Why do we care about them?

5. Infrastructure

8. Why do we care about them?

10. Infrastructure

12. What is a “best practice”? “ Best Practice is a management idea which asserts that there is a technique , method, process, activity, incentive or reward that is more effective at delivering a particular outcome than any other technique, method, process, etc. “ – Wikipedia.org

14. Why do we care about them?

16. Infrastructure

19. Secondly, it provides a standard way of accomplishing a task successfully and with known measuring points.

21. Why do we care about them?

23. Infrastructure

26. Remember to invalidate your sessions when done.

27. Stay away from stateful session beans unless you have to use them.

28. If your JSP’s don’t use the “session” object, use <%@page session=“false” %> for a performance boost

30. Capable of rapid scaling

33. Cache your EJB Home interfaces, they are costly to create over and over again

40. Don’t use System.out.println() as your logging mechanism

42. Standardize on common libraries, stop mashing new things together

45. Why do we care about them?

47. Infrastructure

50. Scripts assure that the activity is performed the same way, every time

52. Application names

62. Why do we care about them?

64. Infrastructure

67. Know where it will come from

68. Know how much load will come

70. Educate all parties on the technologies that will be required for a system or application

72. Keeps everyone on the same page – align the vision

78. Why do we care about them?

80. Infrastructure

85. Even after connection is released, it is not returned to free pool until the doGet() or doPost() method completes (shared connections)

90. Using resource references assures optimal flexibility for resource behavior configuration.