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Version 18.1 by Pascal Robert on 2012/01/21 23:56

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Pascal Robert 10.1 1 A profiler is a development tool that lets you examine memory useage and other bottlenecks in your app.
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Kieran Kelleher 12.1 3 === Kieran Kelleher ===
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Pascal Robert 18.1 5 Free and simple. I like the built-in sun monitoring tool. Java 1.5 only.
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7 Simply add appropriate argument to your launch configuration:
Kieran Kelleher 14.1 8 [[image:config.jpg]]
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10 After that, open your unix terminal and type jconsole which launches the monitoring console and detects running java apps. Select your app and watch it at work. I like the Memory and Threads tabs.
Kieran Kelleher 14.1 11 [[image:jconsole.jpg]]
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Pascal Robert 10.1 13 === Ulrich Köster ===
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15 I've tried some of them.
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17 For the big problems jprofiler is great. The docs are useful, the interface is good and the performance is okay.
18 I prefer jMechanic. It's small, free and works together with WOLips. Just some clicks to set it up.
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20 I don't remember much about the others. Some of them don't run under MacOSX and it can take a lot of time to find how to use them together with WO.
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Pascal Robert 10.1 22 profiler homepage: [[http://www.ej-technologies.com/products/jprofiler/overview.html]] j
23 jmechanic homepage: [[http://sourceforge.net/projects/jmechanic/]]
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Pascal Robert 10.1 26 === Chuck Hill ===
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28 If profiling on Windows is an option, you might also want to look at jSprint:
Pascal Robert 10.1 29 [[http://www.javaperformancetuning.com/tools/jsprint/index.shtml]]
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Pascal Robert 10.1 31 It is shareware, US$50. I've used it and was satisfied with it. It seems like a good deal for the price. I've not (yet) used jMechanic, so I can't compare the two.
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Pascal Robert 10.1 33 Before you buy anything or try anything you would be well advised to spend a couple of hours at the above Java Performance Tuning site reading up on it: [[http://www.javaperformancetuning.com/index.shtml]]
Pascal Robert 6.1 34 There is a lot of good information there.
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Pascal Robert 10.1 36 === David Hrivnak ===
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38 (As of March 2007 the J-Sprint link above does not seem to work - the software may not be available anymore)
39 None of the tools on this page appear to work with WebObjects 4.5.1 on Windows.
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Pascal Robert 10.1 41 === Mike Schrag ===
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43 I use [[JProfiler>>http://www.ej-technologies.com/products/jprofiler/overview.html]] from [[ej-technologies>>http://www.ej-technologies.com]]. It works as well as any of the other big named profilers, and it has explicit support for WebObjects. It is, however, not free like some of the other suggestions.
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Pascal Robert 10.1 45 === Pierce T. Wetter III ===
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47 The CHUD tools (i.e. Shark) work on Java.
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49 === Using Shark with WebObjects ===
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51 If you want to use Shark, Mark Ritchie did a [[presentation>>http://www.wocommunity.org/podcasts/wowodc/west08/WOWODC08_Shark.mp4]] about using Shark with WebObjects at WOWODC 2008.