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The NetBeans Profiler Project



About

NetBeans Profiler is a project to provide a full-featured profiling functionality for the NetBeans IDE. The profiling functions include CPU, memory and threads profiling as well as basic JVM monitoring, allowing developers to be more productive in solving memory or performance-related issues.

The basis of NetBeans Profiler is the JFluid profiling technology, a project that has been originally developed in Sun Laboratories. JFluid uses dynamic bytecode instrumentation to allow for profiling with a dramatically lower overhead, giving the ability to obtain results in situations where the use of other profilers becomes unpractical or impossible.

The aim of this project is to provide a powerful and flexible profiling solution that is tightly integrated into the IDE workflow. As the size and complexity of Java applications grow, keeping their performance at the required level becomes progressively difficult. That is why we believe profiling should become a natural part of the development work cycle.

The Profiler team also develops tools related to profiling. The first such tool available is an integration of Visual GC into NetBeans IDE. For more details see the Visual GC Integration Module homepage.

License

Please note: Currently, the profiler.netbeans.org website only contains web content for the project, licensed under Sun Public License (SPL). The profiler module, visualgc module, as well as the JFluid engine, the modified JVM and jvmstat libraries are only available in binary form under Sun Binary Code License (BCL).


Download


Download the latest stable pre-release installer from the Downloads page.


News!

  • June/24/2005: Profiler Milestone 7 for NetBeans 4.1 released. (What's new)
  • April/21/2005: Visual GC integration for NetBeans 4.1, 4.0 released. (Download Here)
  • April/13/2005: Profiler Milestone 6 for NetBeans 4.1, 4.0 released. (What's new)
  • February/15/2005: Profiler Milestone 5 for NetBeans 4.1, 4.0 released. (What's new)
  • January/14/2005: Profiler Beta (Milestone 4) for NetBeans 4.1, 4.0 and 3.6 released. (What's new)
  • November/10/2004: Profiler Milestone 3 Updated (hot fixes). (Bugs Fixed)
  • November/5/2004: Profiler Milestone 3 for NetBeans 3.6 & 4.0 is released. (What's new)
  • October/12/2004: Profiler Milestone 2 for NetBeans 3.6 is released. (What's new)
  • August/12/2004: Profiler Milestone 1 for NetBeans 3.6 is released.