We have some use-cases where we install JRE along JDK (mainly to minimize the usage of JDK where it is not needed). We do, however, bundle JRE inside the JDK folder (same version) so it's a bit easier ...

Java Mission Control is a performance-analysis tool that renders sampled Java Virtual Machine metrics in easy-to-understand graphs, tables, histograms, lists and charts. Originally designed to depict ...

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It looks like VisualVM freezes when connecting to a Java application which is currently suspended by a debugger. This seems to occur every time you click on the application in the "Applications" tab ...

The Birds of a Feather session “Monitoring and Troubleshooting Java Platform Applications with JDK Software” was led by Mandy Chung and Tomas Hurka. Each of these Sun employees possesses the ...

Although jstack (Java Stack Trace) is a useful tool for learning more about a how a Java thread is behaving, VisualVM is an even easier method for obtaining the same type of information. It is easy to ...