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.
