[ajug-members] Java Profiler recommendations

[John Wells]

Guys,

I'm working on a Swing GUI that's doing a few image manipulations, and the
memory footprint is growing considerably with each manipulation.

I've gone over the code again and again, but I can't see any static
references to the Image objects or anything else that would make them hang
around unecessarily.

I've used the Eclipse Hyades project to profile this app, but have been
thus far unsuccessful in isolating the cause of the growth.

Can anyone recommend an open source profiler that could aid me in this
effort?  The Hyades profiler is good but somewhat non-intuitive...I can
see that int arrays are soaking up memory, but I can trace those arrays
back to the object reference (and type) that's holding them afaik.

Thanks for your help.

John