Computers

An Article reviewing the GUI-based tool PerfAnal for analyzing the performance of applications on the JavaTM 2 Platform. By Nathan Meyers.

A plugin for the Eclipse platform which allows Java code profiling. [Open source, Common Public License]

A profiling tool for Java with a scalable and extensible architecture, allowing its usage for exotic programming languages that use a Java backend. [Open source, GPL]

Displays graphically statistics about the garbage collection activity during a program run. [Open Source, LGPL]

A tool for testing the performance of Java code by runinng a specific part of code many times by a different number of threads. It comes with a Swing GUI for graphical configuration and result representation. [Open Source, GPL]

JVMPI-based profiler with microsecond resolution and XML output. [GPL]

Helps identify excessive processor usage, memory usage, and synchronization in Java programs. Written in C++; available for Solaris and NT 4.0. The JVM must support JVMPI. [Open Source, GPL/LGPL]

Viewer for the old files created by the old java profiler (-prof). [Open source, LGPL]

An all-purpose Java profiling suite targeted at J2EE and J2SE applications. It features CPU profiling, memory profiling, thread profiling and VM telemetry information. [Commercial, trial version]

A performance profiler for Java programs. It collects statistics about accumulated CPU time used by each stack frame in the profiled program and presents the collected data in a GUI. [Open source, GPL]

Low-impact sampling profiler for Java. Periodically dumps information to a file, allows analysis separately. Site includes documentation and download option. [Apache License v2, Open Source]

Reads profiling information output by Sun's heap profiler (invokable by a command-line option of the java interpreter) and displays it for easy interpretation. [Open Source, GPL]