Visual VM is Part of Java 1.6 Update 7

July 14, 2008 on 1:59 pm | In Development, Java |

visualvm.pngJava 1.6 u7 was released recently by Sun. While not bringing major changes it brought along some bug fixes and solved some security issues. However there is one main addition: The VisualVM. This is a really great developer tool: It connects to running VMs and shows “some statistics” about them. Besides memory usage and threads information it also allows to do some basic profiling. In my opinion Sun did a good job on including VisualVM in the package! Not that this thing is build on the NetBeans Platform ;-)

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  1. hey there!

    isn’t such a profiling tool included in the JDK since the 1.5 release. I think it is called jconsole. So how does Visual VM differ from it?

    cheers
    Johannes

    Comment by Johannes Liegl — July 16, 2008 #

  2. There is the profiler included and one can analyze dumps. Further it supports plugins (e.g. jconsole :)

    Comment by Mathias Lux — July 16, 2008 #

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