GCViewer 1.26 review

GCViewer is a Swing-based application that visualizes the verbose garbage collection output generated by the IBM and Sun Java VMs (-v

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 446K Developer: Tagtraum Industries Incorporated

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GCViewer is a Swing-based application that visualizes the verbose garbage collection output generated by the IBM and Sun Java VMs (-verbose:gc/-Xloggc:-flags).

The data can also be exported as CSV for forther processing with a spreadsheet application. Visualizing the data can help when one is tuning the garbage collector, especially the generation sizes and initial heap size.

Here are some key features of "GCViewer":
Sun JDK 1.4/1.5 with the options -Xloggc:< file > [-XX:+PrintGCDetails]
Sun JDK 1.2.2/1.3.1/1.4 with the option -verbose:gc
IBM JDK 1.3.1/1.3.0/1.2.2 with the option -verbose:gc

Best results are achieved with: -Xloggc:< file >

GCViewer can also export the data in CSV (comma separated values) format, which may easily be imported into spreadsheet applications for further processing.

GCViewer has been developed with J2SE 1.4.

What's New in This Release:
The build scripts were moved from Ant to Maven2.
The Jar was compiled with Java 1.4.
Also, support for HP-UX 1.4.1 and 1.4.2 was added.