VisualVM runs on Oracle and Sun JDK 6 to monitor Java applications and troubleshoot performance issues. It utilizes available Java technologies, including jvmstat, Serviceability Agent (SA), and JMX, ...

JDK 5.0 and JDK 6.0 include the Java Monitoring & Management Console tool, also known as JConsole. Read about JConsole's usage options, and find out how JConsole changed from JDK 5 to JDK 6.

There is an accompanying tool called jconsole which allows you to monitor and manage Java applications with JMX enabled. In the following series of articles, we will look at: How to monitor ...

For those running Java applications or services, the Windows Performance Monitor (WPM) contains a treasure trove of valuable information—see Figure 1.

If you’re developing distributed applications, you probably want to measure the performance characteristics of your applications to find out which remote methods — on which objects, on which ...

Now, a researcher has released a new tool, called JavaSnoop, that’s designed to help people better analyze and understand the behavior of Java applications. Threatpost Podcasts ...

One way to cut through marketing hype when evaluating Java Web application tools is to look back at basic Java Web development tools and see where the new tool takes you from there. Adding new tools ...