Visual VM is Part of Java 1.6 Update 7

July 14, 2008 on 1:59 pm | Tags: , | In Development, Java | 2 Comments

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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