Charlie Hunt, one of Sun's performance gurus, is in town (where
"town" equals "Prague, Czech Republic") and we've been studying the
JDK's JTop plugin for JConsole, with a view to porting it to a
NetBeans module. Let me tell you, it was not easy to figure out, at
least initially. JTop consists of a class that extends
JConsolePlugin, which integrates with JConsole, as well as
a JPanel, which provided the actual user interface. We
ended up dumping the JConsolePlugin class
complet...