Hi Krystal, Those tools can all use HotSpotAgent instead without any loss of functionality.
Regards, /Staffan On 16 apr 2012, at 10:21, Krystal Mok wrote: > Hi Staffan, > > There are quite a few tools depending on BugSpotAgent for attaching. At least > all tools that inherit from sun.jvm.hotspot.tools.Tool do. > Removing the BugSpot frontend shouldn't affect those tools, or would it? > > Regards, > Kris > > On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 6:32 PM, Staffan Larsen <[email protected]> > wrote: > All, > > I'd like to remove the BugSpot front end from SA in an effort to clean up the > SA code and reduce the number of implementations. My understanding is that > BugSpot was intended as a more general native debugger not only focused on > the JVM, but that it was never fully implemented. I don't think there is a > need for a general-purpose debugger in SA. > > The features that will change are: > * BugSpot graphical UI will be removed > * PStack and PMap will no longer be able to operate on executables other than > the JVM > * Some code only referenced from BugSpot will be removed > > Does anyone know of a reason this is not a good idea? I don't have the full > history of SA nor all the use cases so I would appreciate feedback. > > Thanks, > /Staffan >
