New TowerJ 3.9 Release Available for Solaris and Linux Platforms

New TowerJ 3.9 Release Available for Solaris and Linux Platforms

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact:

Matthew Waters
Tower Technology
404.350.3322 x.305
mwaters@towerj.com


New TowerJ 3.9 Release Available for Solaris and Linux Platforms
Java Certified Performance Solution Features Improved Support for Multi-CPU
Systems

ATLANTA, GA ž¶ September 4, 2002 - Tower Technology announces the
availability of TowerJ release 3.9 for Solaris and Linux server platforms.
These Java Certified releases feature new threading capabilities, improved
garbage collection and other optimizations. These new features further
enhance the ability of TowerJ to improve the performance and scalability of
CPU bound and application server based Java applications.

TowerJ 3.9

Significant in this release is the new high performance thread
implementation, or Mixed Threads, that combines the efficiency of Tower
Threads with the ability to scale to, and better utilize multiple CPUž²s.
TowerJ 3.9ž²s Mixed Threads enable the mapping of multiple Java threads to a
smaller number of native threads. This thread model reduces the management
overhead associated with thread intensive applications as context switching
is significantly lowered. This is a substantial improvement over the
one-to-one thread mapping of a standard JVM and provides a significant
benefit to applications with high thread overhead.

In conjunction with the Mixed Threads, TowerJ 3.9 also features a new
garbage collector that utilizes multiple thread-local heaps to allow
lockless, parallel allocation. With less lock contention, this also is more
scalable to multiple threads and CPUž²s. The new collector is generational
and features improved cache locality.

Like the previous version, the new release has successfully passed the Java
Compatibility Test Suites and has been certified by Sun Microsystems Inc. as
Java compatible. Enterprises, Application Service Providers and Independent
Software Vendors deploying Java based applications can continue to utilize
TowerJ's ahead-of-time compilation with the assurance that it fully supports
the Java standard. This certification also provides introductory support for
GUI-based applications using AWT and Swing on Solaris and Linux.

About TowerJ

TowerJ is the only independent J2SE certified ahead-of-time compiler with
the capability to pre-compile Java bytecode into optimized platform-specific
native code. This includes all pure java components of the system; custom
code, application servers, servlet engines, web servers, and jdbc drivers.
Tower maintains compatibility with popular third-party application server
products including WebLogic, Resin, Tomcat and Jrun. Through its proprietary
runtime, TowerJ is capable of mixed-mode deployment of compiled
applications, providing support for the dynamic features of Java.

This unique compilation capability allows for the deployment of Java
applications that excel in overall performance and scalability and also
improves IP protection and manageability. For performance critical
applications that are computationally and thread intensive, with minimal
dynamic updating, this can result in significantly lower hardware and
software licensing costs for deployment. This savings can easily justify the
low cost of TowerJ.

Free evaluations of TowerJ 3.9 for Solaris and Linux are available to
qualified evaluators at the Tower web site: http://www.towerj.com. Other
versions are available for Windows IA32, Windows IA64, Linux IA64 and HP/UX
11.0.

About Tower Technology

Tower Technology is privately held and headquartered in Atlanta Georgia. The
company was formed in 1992 and has been focused on high-performance
object-oriented development and deployment environments since itž²s
inception. It began its focus on server-side Java performance solutions in
1996 with the first release of TowerJ coming in early 1998. Tower has
customerž²s worldwide including Enterprise, Telco, ASP, ISV and E-commerce
users. For more information on Tower or TowerJ 3.9, visit
http://www.towerj.com or call 800.285.5124.

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