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[isuru]

Profilers offer the kind of insight into an application that can't be had any other way. Profilers can introduce a significant drag on your application, so you should make sure to do profiling in a test environment.

Here some free profilers.

(Free) Profiling Tools (profilers and profile analysis tools)

AppDynamics -Editions
(Free) AppDynamics application performance management and monitoring

http://www.quest.com...er_freeware.asp
(Free) JProbe freeware version

x.Link | Download x.Link software for free at SourceForge.net
(Free) Open source j2ee monitor

FProfiler - Profiling made simple
(Free) Fprofiler, bytecode injection profiler using BCEL.

jvmstat
(Free) jvmstat: Always on, low impact JVM performance monitoring for HotSpot JVMs

jvmstat
(Free) Sun's jvmstat performance analysis tool now available for Windows

jMechanic | Download jMechanic software for free at SourceForge.net
(Free) jMechanic is an Eclipse Java IDE plugin providing Java Profiling tools such as CPU Sampling and Heap Summary

AdaptJ
(Free) AdaptJ: A Dynamic Application Profiling Toolkit for Java

http://www.virtualmachine.de/
(Free) heapprofile, zero-overhead JVMPI plugin: stays inactive during runtime and simply dumps a very simple image of the Java heap on request

http://www.eclipse.org/hyades/"
(Free) Hyades is an integrated test, trace and monitoring environment, based on Eclipse

http://edocs.bea.com.../jra/index.html
(Free) JRockit Runtime Analyzer

Eclipse profiler plugin | Download Eclipse profiler plugin software for free at SourceForge.net
(Free) Eclipse profiler - plugin for profiling Java applications inside of Eclipse

http://www.cs.usfca....jects/usfjprof/
(Free) USFJProf Java code profiling tool from a masters project

Welcome to JFluid
(Free) On-the-fly dynamic profiling of HotSpot JVMs. Experimental Sun tool

Java Performance TestClient | Download Java Performance TestClient software for free at SourceForge.net
(Free) Java Performance TestClient

Index of /jmemprof
(Free) Java Web-based open source memory profiler

Java Memory Profiler
(Free) Robert Olofsson's Java memory profiler, JMP.

alphaWorks : HeapAnalyzer : Overview
(Free) HeapAnalyzer IBM Java heap leak analyzer

http://www.mernst.org/ariadna/
(Free) Ariadna JVMTI Heap Analysis Tool for analyzing 5.0+ memory leaks

Documentation of JavaTreeProfiler
(Free) Wolfgang Jung's performance profiler

Diagnose common runtime problems with hprof - JavaWorld
(Free) The SDK profiler explained (-Xrunhprof, -prof, -Xprof, -Xaprof, -Xhprof).

Java Tip 92: Use the JVM Profiler Interface for accurate timing - JavaWorld
(Free) Jesper Gørtz's JVMPI intro article with code to help you start rolling your own profiler

Resources and Links for Eclipse
(Free) Eclipse memory monitor plugin

http://starship.pyth...aryp/jProf.html
(Free) Gary Pennington's open source JDK1.2 (JVMPI based) profiler.

http://www.geocities...pInspector.html
(Free) Paul Moeller's heap inspector tool for Win32 Java apps.

http://commerce.bea....wlsext_home.jsp
(Free) The WebLogic Server Performance Monitor Console Extension

alphaWorks : HeapRoots : Overview
(Free) HeapRoots tool for debugging memory leaks in Java applications through analysis of "heap dumps." from IBM JVMs

http://www.thoughtcr...g/profiler.html
(Free) Contention Profiler, profiles thread contention points in a multi-threaded Java program.

http://www.clarkware...re/profiler.zip
(Free) Simple profiler class for timing code.

JUnitPerf
(Free) JUnitPerf, JUnit test decorators to measure performance and scalability.

Extensible Java Profiler
(Free) EJP, Extensible Java profiler.

SimpleProfiler | Download SimpleProfiler software for free at SourceForge.net
(Free) Simple heap profiler (open source).

IBM WebSphere Developer Technical Journal: Writing a Performance Monitoring Tool Using WebSphere Application Server's Performance Monitoring Infrastructure API
(Free) Websphere performance monitoring infrastructure.

alphaWorks : Jinsight : Overview
(Free) IBMs tool for analyzing Java program execution performance and memory.

http://www.experimen...gJVM/index.html
(Free) Modified JVM for tracing execution

alphaWorks : SockPerf : Overview
(Free) A Socket level profiler.

Learn to performance tune your Java programs | ITworld and Content Removed
(Free) Metrognome & Gpercollator profiling tool

Graphically monitor your Web server | ITworld
(Free) Adrian Cockroft's percollator.se web site performance monitor

Profile Viewers

Samurai - a GUI based tail , thread dump analysis tool
(Free) Samurai: GUI application for analyzing JVM thread dumps and verbosegc logs

JRat the Java Runtime Analysis Toolkit
(Free) JRat Runtime Analysis Toolkit

IBM Error - United States
(Free) HeapWizard: Java Heap Analyzer for diagnosing memory leaks, for IBM JVM only

Develop WAP applications with Java servlets and JavaServer Pages and PerfAnal: A Performance Analysis Tool
(Free) Nathan Meyers' PerfAnal Performance Analysis Tool

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(Free) (See the JPT Tool Report) Hendrik Schreiber's GCViewer, which visualizes the output of GC logging generated from the -verbosegc option.

GC Portal
(Free) Sun's GCPortal tool, analyses JVM heap activity from verbosegc output

http://www.hp.com/pr...rary/index.html
(Free) (See the JPT Tool Report) HPjtune for analyzing garbage collection from the -verbosegc output

http://www.hp.com/pr...eter/index.html
(Free) (See the JPT Tool Report) HPjmeter views and analyzes Xrunhprof output

http://www.inetmi.co...fileViewer.html
(Free) Greg White's ProfileViewer views output from running with -prof option (1.1.x JDKs, and -Xrunhprof:cpu=old output of Java 2)

http://www.capital.n...ewer/index.html
(Free) Ulf Dittmer has taken over support of ProfileViewer

http://www.physics.o...atov/HyperProf/
(Free) Vladimir Bulatov's hyperbolic browser (HyperProf) views output from running with -prof option (1.1.x JDKs, and -Xrunhprof:cpu=old output of Java 2)

JDBC profilers

http://www.irongrid....?products_id=30
(Free) (See the JPT Tool Report) IronGrid's IronEye SQL: capture and analyze SQL queries.

http://sqlprofiler.jahia.org
(Free) JDBC SQL Profiling tool: SELECT query analysis which can generate an SQL script that creates the most efficient indexes, based on the results of profiling SQL.

Tuning JDBC: Measuring JDBC performance - O'Reilly Media
(Free) Explaining how to create JDBC wrappers for measuring and logging JDBC calls, classes included.

P6Spy Open Source Software
(Free) P6Spy for logging JDBC calls (open source)

http://java.isavvix....etail.jsp?id=11
(Free) GenDbClasses, generates JDBC wrapper classes. Useful for logging.

http://corbatrace.tuxfamily.org/
(Free) Tool for tracing communications between Corba objects.

[dargueta]

Daaaaamn, man! That's quite a list. How long'd it take you to get that?

[wim DC]

Are there some that you use yourself or recommend?

[isuru]

oxano said:

Are there some that you use yourself or recommend?

At this moment I don't use any of them. But if you working in project this might help ya to find right tool. That's the reason I post it. I wanted to share what I found when i learning about Java Profilers.