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Finally! The new version of JRockit Mission Control is out! It features a much improved user interface, new extensibility features and an experimental update site that will go on-line as soon as we get the go from legal.

Hope you’ll like it! :)

You can download it from the JRockit Mission Control Home Page, either as a stand alone application, or as a set of Eclipse plug-ins that can be run in 3.3 or 3.4 versions of Eclipse.

Here is a minimalistic list of what is new:

General:

• Accessibility support
• Links in the help menu to forum and JRMC home page
• Better copy and paste support
• Extension points that let you extend JRockit Mission Control

JRMC Console:

• Updated MBean Browser
  • Can drill down into CompositeData, Tabular Data, Collections and Arrays directly in the attribute table tree
  • Configurable property key ordering for MBeans
  • Automatic updates on new MBeans being registered/unregistered
  • Information tab with MBean metadata
• Updated dials
  • Gradients
  • Formatting
  • Can add additional dials dynamically
• MBean Tree & Attribute Selector Dialog
  • Filters with wildcards
  • Improved performance
• Triggers
  • Import/Export of trigger rules
  • Triggers can be ordered in groups
  • Triggers can now have descriptions
  • Trigger templates for common use cases
• Attributes
  • Now shows per thread CPU usage
  • Total pause time for the last GC
• Tab groups / Category toolbar navigation
• New Diagnostic Commands tab

JVM Browser:

• A connection can now be tested before added to the JVM Browser tree
• User configurable application names

JRA:

• New recording templates
• Tab groups / Category toolbar navigation
• New overview tab that aggregate important information
• New system tab with JVM and OS-related information
• New recording tab with recording related information
• New allocation tab
• New code related overview tab
• New threads / locks overview tab
• New latency overview tab
• New latency thread tab 
• Histogram moved to new latency histogram tab
• Improved tooltips
• Configurable category toolbar

Here are a few screenshots:

There is also a set of neat experimental plug-ins that will be published as soon as we get the go ahead from legal. The first release of the Experimental Update-site will (at least) contain:

• PDE Wizards for creating plug-ins for JRockit Mission Control
• A JConsole Plug-in Plug-in which lets you run JConsole plug-ins inside JRockit Mission Control
  (It is, IMHO, a much better idea to convert them to true JRMC plug-ins though. ;) I just implemented that plug-in for fun.)

For more detailed information about the 3.1.0 release, please check out the “New and Noteworthy” page introduced with this release.