1 The Need for Performance -- 2 WebSphere Scalability and Availability -- 3 WebSphere 4 and 5 Component Architectures -- 4 WebSphere Infrastructure Design -- 5 WebSphere Deployment and Network Architecture -- 6 WebSphere Platform Performance, Tuning, and Optimization -- 7 WebSphere Failover and High Availability Considerations -- 8 External WebSphere System Availability -- 9 WebSphere EJB and Web Container Performance -- 10 Developing High-Performance WebSphere Applications -- 11 WebSphere Database Performance and Optimization -- 12 Legacy Integration: Performance Optimization -- 13 Performance Management Tooling -- 14 Profiling and Benchmarking WebSphere.