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The NetBeans IDE 6.5 Beta has been released, read the release information or see the list of all new features. The bits can be downloaded from this link. The profiler introduces three new features since 6.5 Milestone 1: Table view for threads: new tab in threads monitor displaying all threads of profiled application in a table HeapWalker improvements: significantly improved performance of resolving references to an instance, improved readability of path to GC root Experimental...

This article describes advanced profiling features of the VisualVM tool which give the user more control over the profiling session and collected data. You may also want to read the Profiling With VisualVM, Part 1 article describing the basic profiling features of VisualVM. By default, the Profiler UI in VisualVM doesn't display any settings, the initial configuration ensures that even an unexperienced user will get some useful results with zero configuration by just clicking...

This article describes the out-of-the-box profiling features of the VisualVM tool available without any additional configuration, just using the default settings. Beside various monitoring features, the tool contains a built-in profiler based on the NetBeans profiler. While the profiler UI in VisualVM looks simple (especially when compared to the NetBeans profiler), the profiling capabilities are almost as powerful as in NetBeans. The main difference between these two tools is...

VisualVM 1.0 tool has been released at https://visualvm.dev.java.net. VisualVM is a free opensource visual tool integrating several commandline JDK tools and lightweight performance and memory profiling capabilities. Designed for both production and development time use, it further enhances the capability of monitoring and performance analysis for the Java SE platform.    The main features as listed on the Features page are: Displaying local and remote Java applications Displaying...

The NetBeans IDE 6.5 Milestone 1 has been released, list of new features is available on New and Noteworthy in Milestone1 page. The bits can be downloaded from this link. The profiler introduces one significant new feature - generating remote profiling packs from the Attach Wizard. You don't have to download a separate file for remote profiling, correct bits for target OS are generated by the Wizard based on the provided settings. There are also some important bugfixes in the...

VisualVM 1.0 Release Candidate is available, you can download it from https://visualvm.dev.java.net/. The most significant news are: Improved performance Improved memory management Improved stability Start Page with links to VisualVM documentation and JDK monitoring and troubleshooting guides

The NetBeans IDE 6.1 has been released. For the profiler this is a stabilization release, several serious bugs have been fixed. You can find list of fixes here. To get the profiler, just download the IDE. Additional binaries for remote profiling can be downloaded from profiler homepage.

VisualVM Beta 2 version been released, you can download it from https://visualvm.dev.java.net/. The most significant news are:    VisualVM graphics - VisualVM has new splashscreen, logo and application icon. Improved Application Snapshots - application overview is saved into the snapshot. Improved defining JMX connection - added possibility to provide persistent username & password for the connection. API & code cleanup - extending VisualVM is now even easier! Many other...

Beta version of VisualVM tool has been released, both binary and sources are available at https://visualvm.dev.java.net. It introduces many new features and improvements:    Applications defined by JMX connection can now be handled by VisualVM the same way as other applications, Overview, Monitor and Threads views are available. Application snapshots allow to save all thread dumps and heap dumps of an application in a single file. Defined hosts and VM coredumps are now...