Constructing Performance Model of JMS Middleware Platform

Middleware performance models are useful building blocks in the performance models of distributed software applica-tions. We focus on performance models of messaging mid-dleware implementing the Java Message Service standard, showing how certain system design properties – including pipelined processing and message coalescing – interact to create performance behavior that the existing models do not capture accurately. We construct a performance model of the ActiveMQ messaging middleware that addresses the out-lined issues and discuss how the approach extends to other middleware implementations