Recent Posts by Jiri Sedlacek

We are thinking of redesigning the Select Profiling Task dialog for Profiler 6.0. The main reasons are to add support for controlling new Profiler features and allow future extensibility, improve usability and fix accessibility problems. Here are some screenshots of how the new dialog should look like, we will welcome any feedback:

In general the Profiler consists of two independent parts: Profiler tool and Profiler agent. During profiling these two parts communicate together and are able to notify each other about important lifecycle events - Profiler tool sends a "Profiling stopped" command to the agent which stops profiled application or the agent informs the tool about profiled application shutdown. In case the communication between tool and started agent fails for some reason, the agent might block...

The NetBeans Profiler team would like to announce the availability of the NetBeans Profiler 6.0 Milestone 6. We have been migrating to new Java language infrastructure introduced in NetBeans IDE and skipped Milestone 5. Now we are back with great memory profiling improvements: Take Heap Dump action has been implemented allowing to take dump of the heap easily from the IDE the same way as regular snapshot. This is currently available only for applications running on JDK 1.6 and...

NetBeans IDE 6.0 Milestone 5 was just released with long-awaited editor improvements based on new Java language infrastructure - see the What's New document. Because some parts of the IDE are disabled in this release and Profiler itself is in process of switching to the new infrastructure, we decided to skip Milestone 5. Next Profiler 6.0 dev release will be Milestone 6. Till then you can use the latest available Profiler release - Milestone 4 - with NetBeans IDE 6.0...

Two weeks ago Sun Microsystems announced opensourcing href="http://openjdk.dev.java.net/">key Java implementations including javac, the Java programming language compiler. You can get the javac source code also from netbeans.org with a detailedtutorial to getting, building, and running the javac sources in NetBeans IDE. Since the javac sources are available as NetBeans project inside the IDE, you can easily build and run the compiler as wellas investigate how things work...

Anytime the profiled application is started for Profiler direct attach, the -agentpath argument of java command is used to load the Profiler agent into JVM. For Profile Project action this happens automatically and you don't have to care about it. But when you are using the Attach Profiler action, you have to start the profiled application manually and provide correct -agentpath argument. Synopsis of the argument is:   ...

Have you already seen new netbeans.org web? It's completely redesigned and looks cool! We've used the new bright style also for our blog's theme, leaving the old dark Brushed Metal theme behind.

The NetBeans Profiler team is proud to announce that NetBeans Profiler 5.5 has been released. Many serious bugs have been fixed since Profiler 5.0 and these new features have been added: Profiling EJB Modules and Enterprise Applications: For these project types Profile Project action is now available allowing to start them for profiling with just few mouse clicks and no special setup. Support for SJSAS/GlassFish and JBoss Servers: Sun Java System Application Server 9/GlassFish...

The NetBeans Profiler team would like to announce the availability of the NetBeans Profiler 6.0 Milestone 4. There are two new features in this release: Live Results Categorization and DrillDown and Dynamic Attach on applications running on standard JVM 1.6. Also the HeapWalker has been improved. More details, complete list of bugfixes and the bits can be found on NetBeans Profiler 6.0 Milestone page. Stay tuned, information about new features will also appear on the blog...