The Site With the Lamp

July 6, 2005

Had a go at at the Netbeans profiler. The first thought that comes to mind is that it is rather strange. It will only work with the java 5 update 4 or Java 6. The java 6 early access was made available only a few days ago.

Immidately upon upgrading from update 3 to update 4, Netbeans refused to start up. But that was soon put right by editing the netbeans.conf file:

Upon start up a new item labeled profile appeared on the IDE menu. The profiler's UI seems really well designed. It's easy to get the hang of all the choices available, you rarely have to wonder what the hell is this. The same however cannot be said about the output, that does take some figuring out.

When running the for the first time It calibrated the system. When the application was run it produced several different results all of which I am still trying to digest. During the second run the profiler seemed to crash. A popup appeared with the message "Performing instrumentation please wait" and would not go away. Not even after the application been profiled has been exited.