building the plug-in is fairly mechanical and not that difficult

Regards,
Kirk

On Jun 19, 2010, at 10:49 AM, Jaroslav Bachorik wrote:

> Well, there is a Java api exposed by VisualVM - the OQL engine
> utilizes it. But in order to use it you would need to write your own
> VisualVM plugin.
> 
> I would say that for and ad-hoc analysis the javascript scripting
> would be much more useful - no need to build/install a new plugin and
> you can save your analysis definition for later use inside VisualVM.
> 
> On Jun 19, 10:09 am, Jan Goyvaerts <[email protected]> wrote:
>> isn't there a Java api to parse heap dump files ?
>> 
>> On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 21:07, Jaroslav Bachorik <[email protected]>wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> The nice thing with the OQL implementation in VisualVM (and jhat) is
>>> that the code you send to the OQL processor doesn't necessarily need
>>> to be restricted by the OQL rules. If the processor doesn't recognize
>>> the OQL syntax being used it tries to evaluate the given code as a
>>> plain javascript program. Utilizing this fall-back method you can
>>> write an arbitrarily complex heap processing logic in javascript and
>>> the VisualVM will take care of displaying the result.
>> 
>>> Check outhttps://visualvm.dev.java.net/oqlhelp.htmlfor the list of
>>> the heap dump manipulation functions available to such scripts.
>> 
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