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Is there any free (FOSS) graphical profiler similar to YourKit available for the Java VM? What do you use to profile your Java applications?

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I like VisualVM that is included with the JDK. – Jonas Jul 26 '11 at 9:18
Why? What's good about it? – Walter Jul 26 '11 at 12:59
@Walter I dont have much experience with profilers so I cannot say what it does better or worse than other profilers, but its free, shipped with the JDK (1.6u_06 and later I believe). Featureset here: visualvm.java.net/features.html – Brian Aug 22 '11 at 18:33

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I like the one that ships with Netbeans by default.

I've used it in the past with success and found it was hassle-free to setup and gave me the metrics I needed.

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I'm not sure when it was added, but the latest versions of NetBeans use the VisualVM that Jonas mentioned. – Thomas Owens Jul 26 '11 at 9:50
@Thomas Isn't Visual VM a separate program? Because last time I checked Netbeans has its own built in profiler. – TheLQ Jul 26 '11 at 16:28
@TheLQ VisualVM is the NetBeans profiler released as an independent application (but still built on the NetBeans platform): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VisualVM, blogs.oracle.com/nbprofiler/entry/visualvm_1_3_released, visualvm.java.net/index.html – Thomas Owens Jul 26 '11 at 16:53

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