Tutorial: Profiling Java Programs

--D. Thiebaut (talk) 15:01, 30 September 2013 (EDT)

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This tutorial is intended to give a brief overview of JVisualVM, the profiler for Java. We use this profiler with Eclipse and use a 2D-packing application as our target application. Our goal is to figure out where the program is spending most of its time. The environment used to create this tutorial is VisualVM 1.3.6 running on OS X 10.7.5, and the hardware is a 2.8 GHz dual quad-core MacPro.

JVisualVM

• JVisualVM can be downloaded from visualvm.java.net. Once you have downloaded and installed it, you should be ready for running the application.

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