http://www.ej-technologies.com/download/jprofiler/changelog.html News about JProfiler releases from ej-technologies info@ej-technologies.com webmaster@ej-technologies.com en http://www.ej-technologies.com/images/ej-technologies_small.gif http://www.ej-technologies.com/ 200 35 360 http://www.ej-technologies.com/download/jprofiler/changelog.html#5.1.3 http://www.ej-technologies.com/download/jprofiler/changelog.html#5.1.3 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 07:00:00 GMT New features:

• Support for Mac OS X Java 6 DP9
• Support for Netbeans 6.1

Bugs fixed:

• HPROF dialogs were not correctly sized so that the OK button was sometimes clipped
• Fixed problems with Netbeans integration
• JProfiler MBean was garbage collected under certain circumstances

]]> http://www.ej-technologies.com/download/jprofiler/changelog.html#5.1.2 http://www.ej-technologies.com/download/jprofiler/changelog.html#5.1.2 Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:00:00 GMT Bugs fixed:

• The fix for "Instrumentation of some native methods" in 5.1.1 lead to other VerifyErrors that are fixed in this release.
• Heap walker, reference view: the "tree of outgoing references" view mode did not show any data if strings with certain characters were among the outgoing references.

]]> http://www.ej-technologies.com/download/jprofiler/changelog.html#5.1.1 http://www.ej-technologies.com/download/jprofiler/changelog.html#5.1.1 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 08:00:00 GMT New features:

• Call graph: optional display of average times, configurable in the view settings

Bugs fixed:

• NPE was thrown in JNDI interception if the parameters of a JNDI query were null
• Recorded allocation counts for objects created in native code was wrong
• HPROF options dialog was only displayed if the file name had an .hprof extension
• Hot Spots view: deselecting "Show average values in brackets" in the view settings broke the table layout
• Instrumentation of some native methods when profiling with Java 6+ produced a VerifyError
• Monitor usage statistics included monitors from VM internal finalizer thread
• Fixed race condition in the JProfiler GUI
• Fixed some display problems if the JProfiler GUI was run with Java 1.4

]]> http://www.ej-technologies.com/download/jprofiler/changelog.html#5.1 http://www.ej-technologies.com/download/jprofiler/changelog.html#5.1 Wed, 07 Nov 2007 08:00:00 GMT New features:

• Tree views of incoming and outgoing references in the heap walker reference view
• Cumulated references as a tree table in the heap walker reference view
• Action to select all exclusively referenced objects in the heap walker reference view
• Type resolution of object arrays in memory views and heap walker when profiling with Java 5+ (JVMTI)
• Reworked internal source viewer with file structure display, syntax coloring and search
• Bundled IDE integration for IDEA 7
• IDE integration for eclipse 3.4 (M2)
• IDE integration for Netbeans 6
• Added option to remove unreferenced objects when loading HPROF snapshots
• Added a fixed summary row at the bottom of the All Objects and Recorded Objects views
• Added context menu in thread history view to switch to single threads in the call tree or hot spots view
• Average time is now a separate sortable column in the CPU hot spots view
• View and thread filters are now persistent on a per-session basis
• The main toolbar can now display icons with text or small icons
• External source viewer: source files which are contained in JAR files are now extracted to temporary files before the external viewer is invoked
• Added "Show Source" and "Show Bytecode" actions to stack trace lists in the thread monitor view, the monitor views and the allocation spot description in heap walker
• Added context menu in object comparison to create allocation call tree and allocation hot spot comparisons for the selected class
• Session settings: if an executable JAR file is selected for profiling, the Class-Path manifest entry can be added to the class path automatically
• The "node details" dialog in all tree dialogs is now non-modal
• Added expansion popups in hot spot views
• View filters in hot spots views now support all hot spot types. Previously, only methods were supported.
• Selection step labels in the heap walker selection description are now hyperlinks to the first occurrence of the corresponding object set
• Heap walker reference view: Added view source and view bytecode actions to the cumulated reference views
• The "Record CPU data" and "Record allocation data" actions can now be invoked manually as well when there are triggers that start and stop recording
• Integration wizard for install4j/exe4j projects
• Integration wizard for BEA Weblogic 10
• Integration wizard for JBoss 5
• Integration wizard for Apache Geronimo 2
• Integration wizard for Caucho Resin 3.1
• API: added com.jprofiler.api.agent.interceptor.PayloadInfo.discardTime(). This can be called if no timing information is desired for an interceptor type.

Bugs fixed:

• Clicking on Auto-Update in the status bar in the class tracker did not retrieve new data
• Source viewer did not support secondary top-level classes with file scope
• Numbers next to the bar in the hot spot view could be cut off
• Table views in the heap walker did not have action for "Use selected objects"
• java.lang.Class was not present in the package aggregation level of the heap walker
• eclipse integration: source navigation to inner classes was broken
• Disconnecting and reconnecting to a remote JVM when dynamic views were frozen lead to inconsistent state in the GUI
• Fixed integer overflow in monitor usage statistics
• Classes with varargs-style main method could not be profiled
• Wrong units were used in the difference column of the object views when the primary measure was set to "shallow size"

]]> http://www.ej-technologies.com/download/jprofiler/changelog.html#5.0.1 http://www.ej-technologies.com/download/jprofiler/changelog.html#5.0.1 Fri, 27 Jul 2007 07:00:00 GMT Bugs fixed:

• Data in call tracer and monitor history views was not saved to snapshots under some circumstances
• Uninstaller did not work when JProfiler was running with Java 1.4
• eclipse 3.1 integration: source navigation did not work for some project configurations
• Netbeans integration: fixed several GUI problems
• API samples did not work with floating licenses
• HPROF snapshots with a file extension other than .hprof could not be loaded
• Fixed a rare crash in the profiling agent
• The entry for "calls to filtered classes" is no longer shown in the CPU hot spots view

]]> http://www.ej-technologies.com/download/jprofiler/changelog.html#5.0 http://www.ej-technologies.com/download/jprofiler/changelog.html#5.0 Fri, 27 Apr 2007 07:00:00 GMT New features:

• Powerful triggers and actions
• Support for reading and writing HPROF memory snapshot files
• VM telemetries overhaul with additional VM telemetries
• Redesigned session settings
• Call tracer view
• eclipse integration: support for WTP launch configurations
• JProfiler MBean for controlling the profiling agent
• Native methods can be instrumented when profiling with Java 6+
• Primitive data types can be captured by heap snapshots when using Java 6+
• More flexible filter settings for method call recording
• Custom profiling settings templates
• Option to disable all filters when sampling is used
• eclipse integration: support for eclipse 3.3M6
• eclipse integration: support for equinox launch configurations
• eclipse plugin is bundled as a feature
• Improved JVM search in setup wizard and general settings dialog ("Search common locations")

Bugs fixed:

• Expanded the number of allowed interceptors to 32768. Previously, only 255 interceptors were usable.

]]> http://www.ej-technologies.com/download/jprofiler/changelog.html#4.3.2 http://www.ej-technologies.com/download/jprofiler/changelog.html#4.3.2 Fri, 16 Feb 2007 08:00:00 GMT Bugs fixed:

• Fixed problems with "Show source" action for IDE integrations
• Improved wait thread state recognition for IBM VMs
• Fixed java.util.concurrent recording issues
• API: payload types for multiple interceptors of the same class were not unique
• API: fixed rare custom interceptor instrumentation issues

]]> http://www.ej-technologies.com/download/jprofiler/changelog.html#4.3.1 http://www.ej-technologies.com/download/jprofiler/changelog.html#4.3.1 Fri, 05 Jan 2007 08:00:00 GMT New features:

• Console and source viewer frames are excluded from modality when JProfiler runs with Java 6

Bugs fixed:

• Webstart profiling did not work with Java 6 JRE
• Fixed z-order issues in JProfiler GUI with Java 6
• Library version mismatch detection was broken
• NPE for call tree comparisons with filtered call nodes
• Call tree comparisons with annotated JDBC/JMS/JNDI measurements were broken
• Fixed rare deadlock on Mac OS X

]]> http://www.ej-technologies.com/download/jprofiler/changelog.html#4.3 http://www.ej-technologies.com/download/jprofiler/changelog.html#4.3 Tue, 12 Dec 2006 08:00:00 GMT New features:

• Profiling platform with API for writing custom profilers and snapshot analyzers
• Interceptor API for injecting measurements, adding payload to the call tree and creating new hot spot types
• EJB 3 support
• Class tracker view
• Bundled IDE integration for IDEA 6.0
• IDE integration for Netbeans 5.5
• IDE integration for eclipse 3.3 M3
• Thread name changes are now tracked and updated in the JProfiler GUI
• Action for highlighting the shortest path to the main node in the reference graph of the heap walker
• Action to use the selected java.lang.Class objects in the Classes view of the heap walker
• Option for CPU hot spot comparison to compare total call time or average call time
• Layouters for the Call Graph view
• IDEA integration: support for changing the JProfiler executable
• Netbeans integration: support for profiling external Sun Java System Application Servers
• Netbeans integration: snapshot comparisons are now accessible
• Netbeans integration: several smaller bug fixes and enhancements
• BEA Weblogic 9.2 integration wizard
• Sun Java System Application Server 9 integration wizard
• Glassfish Application Server V1 and V2 integration wizards
• IBM Websphere 6.1 integration wizard
• Apache Geronimo integration wizard
• Tomcat 6.x integration wizard
• Backup config files in the Sun Java System Application Server and IBM Websphere integration wizards

Bugs fixed:

• A StackOverflowError occurred if agent.jar was not in not on the boot classpath, now a NoClassDefFoundError is thrown
• Integer overflow could occur for garbage collected class instance counts in very large heaps
• Server in the profiling agent was not robust enough, now it is possible to reconnect if the connection was broken due to a network error
• Fixed race condition when profiling with the IBM JVM
• java.util.concurrent support in the Threads section did not work with Java 1.6
• Fixed a rare race condition that could lead to a crash at startup
• Console window was not removed from the window list when closed with the X button
• Live instance reference in the reference graph of the heap walker could be missing when not using the full GC option
• Hotspots could be missing in the CPU hot spot comparison if the hot spot was below the internal threshold in one of the snapshots
• Differencing in package aggregation level was broken
• "Hide calls" checkbox in call graph view settings was not persistent
• Method node selection dialog in call graph displayed wrong time unit
• Cross-platform console did not support overwriting current line with \r
• stack trace lists in threads section rendered J2EE components and URLs with internal class names
• thread name selector threw exception when entering some special characters

]]> http://www.ej-technologies.com/download/jprofiler/changelog.html#4.2.2 http://www.ej-technologies.com/download/jprofiler/changelog.html#4.2.2 Mon, 25 Sep 2006 07:00:00 GMT Bugs fixed:

• eclipse integration: environment variable modifications were not correctly handled by the JProfiler plugin
• Snapshot comparisons: could not compare arrays in allocation tree and allocation hot spot comparison
• Session ID was not re-generated when copying a session
• Loading snapshots with 100,000s of threads could be very slow
• Workaround for corrupted snapshots
• Export ant task did not work with some JVMs
• Command line export: no default liveness type for allocation views
• Command line export: an exception was printed when exporting from a snapshot containing a heap snapshot

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