Java Microbenchmark Applet - Runs set of math related microbenchmarks. Author no longer recording times for these microbenchmarks and recoment use Doug Bell's benchmark applet, but old results present in table at page. - http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jch/java/microbench.html
Optimizing Java Linpack Benchmark - By Jonathan Hardwick. Author took the original Java Linpack benchmark, by Jack Dongarra and Reed Wade, and applied some optimizations. - http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jch/java/linpack.html
SPEC JBB2000 - Java Business Benchmark is SPEC's first benchmark for evaluating the performance of server-side Java. Joining the client-side SPECjvm98 and SPECjbb2000 it continues the SPEC tradition of giving Java users a benchmark for measuring a system's ability to ru - http://www.spec.org/osg/jbb2000/
Java Linpack Benchmark - A Java version numerically intensive test that has been used for years to measure the floating point performance of computers. By Jack Dongarra, Reed Wade, and Paul McMahan. - http://www.netlib.org/benchmark/linpackjava/
Make Java fast: Optimize! - Article by Doug Bell explores some low-level optimization techniques in Java and presents a Benchmark applet to measure Java's performance. - http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-04-1997/jw-04-optimize.html
CaffeineMark 3.0 - A series of tests that measure the speed of Java programs running in various hardware and software configurations. [Freeware] - http://www.benchmarkhq.ru/cm30/
The Mauve Project - A collaborative, open source effort to build a testsuite for the core Java language libraries. [Open Source] - http://sources.redhat.com/mauve/
Volano JVM Benchmark - A pure Java server benchmark characterized by long-lasting network connections and high thread counts. It creates client connections in groups of 20 and measures the time required by the clients to take turns broadcasting a set of messages to the group. - http://www.volano.com/report/index.html