[Robert J. Muller]

I hope this is the appropriate forum for this question, if not point me there, as there is no profiling forum at this point.

I just upgraded to MyEclipse 8.5/Eclipse 3.5.2 and want to use the profiler to debug a performance problem. I’m running on a Mac, OSX 10.6.3 Snow Leopard.

I follow the documentation (what little there is of it) and choose Profile As -> MyEclipse Server Application on the webapp project. The VisualVM 1.1.1 window (eventually) comes up, the webapp starts under JBoss 5 in the console, and I am left on the Start Page. After poking around a bit, I click on Applications->Open in the Mac menu for the tool, and I see a hierarchy that contains Visual VM, JBoss (pid 1463), and <Unknown Application> (pid 1282) under the Local node. Clicking on JBoss or the Unknown Application gets me a tab view for the application, with Monitor showing memory use. I click on Profiler, then click on CPU to start profiling, and I seem lots of messages in red on the console saying “Profiler Agent: 250 classes cached” and “Established local connection with the tool”. When I use a web browser to run my test URL ( a slow-performing servlet execution), nothing appears to happen in the Profiler.

So what am I missing? How do I actually get to the visuals that appear in the help docs about profiled Java methods etc.?

[support-joy]

arabidopsis,

I have escalated your issue to dev team. They will get back to you on this.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

[Robert J. Muller]

As of today, no response; I’m going to have to assume that profiling a web application just doesn’t work in MyEclipse.

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