Monitoring concurrency applications
When you implement Java applications, you normally use an IDE such as Eclipse or NetBeans to create your projects and write your source code. But the JDK (short for Java Development Kit) includes tools you can use to compile, execute, or generate Javadoc documents. One of those tools is Java VisualVM, which is a graphical tool that shows you information about the applications that are executing in a JVM. You can find it in the bin directory of your JDK installation (jvisualvm.exe
). You can also install a plugin for Eclipse (Eclipse launcher for VisualVM) to integrate its functionality on Eclipse.
If you execute it, you will see a window similar to this:
In the left side of the screen, you can see the Applications tab where you will see all the Java applications that are currently running by the current user in your system. If you make a double-click in one of those applications, you will see five tabs:
- Overview: This tab shows general information about the...