With the release of VisualVM as a standard part of Sun’s JDK distribution since JDK 6 Update 7, it is likely that Java developers will begin using VisualVM in situations in which they previously used ...

JConsole allows you to see inside your Java application while it's running. To do this you need to install the correct plumbing code, but we'll show you how. Keeping tabs on how your Java applications ...

How do you find out what is happening to a running Java application? You can find Notepad.jar in $JAVA_HOME/demo/jfc/Notepad. Once the Notepad application has started ...

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. In ...

In this blog entry, I will be looking at using Orson Chart Beans to generate charts in a custom tab added to JConsole. Orson Charts (also sometimes called JFreeBeans in some of the documentation) are ...