Re: why administrator refuse to give permission on PLUSTRACE

Matthias Hoys wrote:
>> Daniel,
>>
>> to write *really* good, efficient programs, a programmer
>> must see its code executing in production. S/he needs
>> to get the feeling, the "haha" experience that only
>> confrontation with reality can provide.
>>
>> Figures and methods are not enough. They are too
>> abstract. Whenever a programmer is disconnected from
>> reality, most often he'll write sub-optimal programs.
>>
>> Note that a development system a never a full
>> simulation of a production system.
>>
>> Regards

> 
> That's why you need a pre-production environment ... with the same hardware 
> and data volume as your production environment. And there are tons of 
> load-simulation programs available (for example Loadrunner, Winrunner etc).
> However, this is the ideal situation :-)
> 
> Matthias 

And lets not forget to mention Oracle's own, and free, SwingBench from Dominic Giles.

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Daniel A. Morgan
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