Rockstarapps mission is simple: give developers a set of tools that makes it possible to create highly optimized Web applications. Taking the research that has been done for how to create highly optimized Web applications, Rockstarapps codifies the results of the research into simple to use tools.

What tools do we offer?

RockStar Web Profiler ("Razor")

RockStar Web Profiler(codename "Razor") is an HTTP debugging proxy combined with a client side performance probe and a JProfiler-like JavaScript profiler. Putting server side, network and client side performance together, Razor Web Profiler gives you three-dimensional insight into your application:
  • Where time is spent: server, network and client-side
  • HTTP traffic details and graphs show how many resources are used.
  • Page rendering breakdown shows where time is being spent through the complete page loading lifecycle.
  • Deep JavaScript profiling contains callstack, total duration and function counters.

RockStar Optimizer

Website Optimization has been researched extensively by Steve Souders, et al. and tools have been created to diagnose performance (YSlow) issues. Rockstarapps builds Aptana and Eclipse-based plugins to solve your performance issues. Are you currently getting and "F" in YSlow? The Optimization Plugins will turn that into an "A" by optimizing your application against all 13 YSlow rules. Read more...
  • Concatenate JavaScript and CSS by selecting files or HTML tags.
  • Automatically rebuild resources if a dependency changes.
  • Compression JavaScript and CSS is done using YUICompressor.
  • Ant tasks for concatenating and compressing JavaScript and CSS.
  • Image Sprite editor makes creation of Image sprites and CSS variables simple.
  • Complete Web application optimization and deployment wizard for Eclipse.

Amazon WS Tools

Web Optimization must take into account the Cloud. The Amazon WS tools makes it easy to interact with the individual services in the Amazon WebService Platform. Each service has a corresponding Eclipse view and actions which makes configuring the service quick and easy. In addition to configuring the services, the optimization tools can interact with S3 and CloudFront to make your application CDN enabled. Read more...
  • CloudFront - Configure all aspects of the CloudFront Distributions.
  • SimpleDB - Add, Delete SimpleDB domains and be able query (Query Editor) and modify data within domains.
  • S3 - Easily configure S3 buckets and resources within buckets (Upload, Permissions, Add, Delete...). Tools are provided make it easy to debug issues with both S3 and CloudFront.
  • Simple Queue Service - configure all aspects of SQS including queues and adding delete and viewing items in queues.
Take a look at the screenshots of the new functional or read more about the features in the Product section of the site.