[ajug-members] aspectj

[Jeremy Haile]

+1 for JProfiler.

YourKit is a close second in my book, but they are both powerful.  It  
just comes down to personal preference.  I would demo both of these  
profilers and pick the one you like best.

Jeremy


On May 21, 2008, at 4:51 PM, Les Hazlewood wrote:

> You might enjoy YourKit too: http://www.yourkit.com/
>
> I think its one of the better ones.
>
> (I have no affiliation to any profiling software company ;) ).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Les
>
> On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 4:16 PM, mike stittleburg
> <mstittleburg at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>>
>> yep, i've used jprofiler quite a bit when i used to do performance  
>> work. It
>> works pretty well but it's to
>> heavyweight for load testing. I tried JIP jiprof.sourceforge.net  
>> but it
>> still puts to much of a drag on system. Netbeans has
>> a profiler too (and it's free) and i might take a look at that.
>>
>> thanks,
>> mike
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Peter Wagener [mailto:peter at wagener.org]
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 3:40 PM
>> To: ajug-members at ajug.org
>> Subject: Re: [ajug-members] aspectj
>>
>>
>> I've used JProfiler quite a bit to profile an app within JBoss, and
>> had good experiences with it.
>>
>> The thing that worries me about a roll-your-own profiler via AOP is
>> that you may end up seeing some of the data (i.e method timing), but
>> you may not have any visibility into other things that could be
>> harming your app's performance (i.e memory leaks, unexpected code
>> paths, etc).  Profiling is really hard to do well, and for my money
>> using someone else's experience (i.e the JProfiler folks) is well
>> worth it.
>>
>>
>> Just my $0.02 --
>>
>> Peter
>>
>>
>> On May 19, 2008, at 10:25 AM, Alex Zhang wrote:
>>
>>> Interestingly, I thought about the exact same thing last week, using
>>> aop to profile my JEE apps deployed in JBoss.
>>>
>>> The JBoss Profiler project seems not getting lots of attention
>>> (probably because there is not even an actually release? another
>>> chicken and egg thing). I will give JProfiler a shot if it doesn't
>>> work I will jump into AOP.
>>>
>>> One challenge of using AOP to do profiling is the post processing,  
>>> how
>>> to capture the stack trace (call hierarchy) and generate a nice
>>> drill-down report.
>>>
>>> Alex
>>>
>>> On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 9:31 AM, mike stittleburg
>>> <mstittleburg at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> It seemed like the only good examples of AOP were either logging or
>>>> transactions. I'm interested in using it for performance monitoring
>>>> (capture
>>>> method times).
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: James Holmes [mailto:james at jamesholmes.com]
>>>> Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 8:37 AM
>>>> To: ajug-members at ajug.org
>>>> Subject: Re: [ajug-members] aspectj
>>>>
>>>> We've been using AOP via Spring on some of the projects I've been
>>>> working
>>>> on. Nothing very exciting though, just some logging. AOP and JMX
>>>> were both
>>>> "hot" technologies a few years ago that got alot of attention, but
>>>> I think
>>>> the reason you don't hear much about them now is because they're
>>>> mostly
>>>> infrastructure technologies. They get used up front in a project
>>>> and then
>>>> are touched very little after that.
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 10:14 PM, mike stittleburg
>>>> <mstittleburg at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Anyone out there using AspectJ? Seemed like AOP was a big thing a
>>>>> couple
>>>>> years ago but doesn't seem to be active lately.
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