Case Study: Antea boosts Java application performance with XRebel from ZeroTurnaround

Antea cuts session bloat to 30 MB with ZeroTurnaround

Antea, a company specializing in software for industrial sectors like petrochemical and energy, sought to optimize its development tooling to better understand its complex Java web applications built with Spring and Hibernate. The challenge was to identify and fix performance issues such as inefficient database queries and session bloat that were affecting application speed and memory usage. To gain this insight, they turned to the vendor ZeroTurnaround and implemented its XRebel profiling tool.

By using ZeroTurnaround's XRebel, Antea's development team gained immediate visibility into their application's performance during development. The solution helped them identify that the in-memory Apache Derby database was too slow and that a misconfiguration was causing session sizes to balloon to 30MB. This led them to switch to HSQLDB and fix the costly injection mistake. The results were significant, including a noticeable performance increase that was commented on by sales representatives, fewer performance-related bugs, faster resolution times, and a reduction in customer complaints about slow pages.

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