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VisualVM is a visual tool integrating several commandline JDK tools and lightweight profiling capabilities. Designed for both production and development time use, it further enhances the capability of monitoring and performance analysis for the Java SE platform. See screencast.

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VisualVM Is Designed For You

Application Developer: Monitor, profile, take thread dumps, browse heap dumps

System Administrator: Monitor and control Java applications across the entire network

Java Application User: Create bug reports containing all the necessary information

News

December 12th, 2011: JDK 6 Update 30 released, it contains Java VisualVM tool based on VisualVM 1.3.2. Latest JDK 6 update from Oracle can be downloaded here.

October 17th, 2011: VisualVM 1.3.3 released. This release is built on NetBeans Platform 7.0.1 and delivers several new features and a lot of bugfixes. It also updates the integration with Eclipse IDE to support Eclipse 3.6+. The tool can be downloaded from the Download page, sources are available in release133 branch.

March 3rd, 2011: VisualVM 1.3.2 released. This release delivers several bugfixes and necessary updates caused by dev.java.net migration. The tool can be downloaded from the Download page, sources are available in release132 branch.

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VisualVM on the Web

VisualVM, tool and plugins overview by Roman Stoffel.

VisualVM - Profiling Java applications, using VisualVM with Eclipse IDE by Arttu Viljakainen.

Detect your Memory Leaks by counting Surviving Generations: Size matters!, an article by Frank Munz.

VisualVM for Java Development , Java VisualVM review on the Dr. Dobbs's Blog.

Using VisualVM with IBM JDK, a quick tip on the Thirdstage's Blog.

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