Re: Instrumentation best practices question, and more

2015-11-26 Thread Alan Bateman
On 26/11/2015 10:13, Michael Rasmussen wrote: Yeah, I should have been more specific -- the issue is when the package is loaded from the boot loader, for instance when you have an agent that has itself on the Boot-Class-Path in the manifest. Thanks for clarifying. What you are seeing is spec

Re: Instrumentation best practices question, and more

2015-11-26 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On 26 November 2015 at 09:33, Alan Bateman wrote: > On 25/11/2015 22:56, Michael Rasmussen wrote: >> >> >> 3) Why was the implementation of java.lang.Package changed, so it no >> longer returns the content of the Manifest file? >> Previously, doing MyClass.class.getPackage().getImplementationTitle

Re: Instrumentation best practices question, and more

2015-11-25 Thread Alan Bateman
On 25/11/2015 22:56, Michael Rasmussen wrote: : 1) There have been some discussions on this mailing list already regarding escaping the encaptulation of the modules, but I haven't found anything regarding what the best/recommended practice is for something like profilers, trace advices, etc or a

Instrumentation best practices question, and more

2015-11-25 Thread Michael Rasmussen
Hi Having recently started looking into the JDK9-jigsaw builds, and the numerous changes that it entails, to see what impact it has on our software, I have some initial questions that I haven't been able to find the answers to so far. 1) There have been some discussions on this mailing list alrea