The next release of our popular enterprise-class Java profiler is about to hit the streets and we thought we'd give you a heads-up now to let you know what's coming!
The primary focus of this release is all about usability – right from installation and licensing to configuration ready for use. We've significantly revamped the whole user experience which should get you up-and-running with JProbe in a lot less time.
New JProbe Memory Analysis Welcome screen
Following a usability study conducted with JProbe users, a number of improvements were made particularly around the configuration of JProbe as well as the simplification of Run & Connect which are all accomplished from the main UI. In addition, if certain features are not available, we explain why and how to correct if applicable.
The new JProbe Configurations Welcome window
Simplifying configuration changes
There are a number of key pre-configured demos which are ready-to-run (3 for Java SE and 3 for Java EE) via a supplied installed version of Apache Geronimo 2.1.
The "Gamepack" Performance Analysis demo
Connecting the JProbe console to running sessions has been greatly simplified through the ability to scan for JProbe analysis engines running either on the local system or the local subnet.
Auto-attachment to running sessions
You may recall from release 8.2 that we introduced auto-instrumentation of the JDBC layer, allowing you to view SQL statements executed from the application which can then be tuned automatically using the SQL Optimizer for Oracle tool.
This is a significant addition to JProbe's capability because Java developers often have application performance problems which can be directly attributable to SQL execution performance on the Oracle database, yet are powerless to identify what they are, much less know how to deal with them.
For more information on SQL Optimizer for Oracle, please click this link: http://www.quest.com/sql-optimizer-for-oracle/
Information is available about another package which combines Toad for Oracle Xpert edition (inc SQL Optimizer for Oracle) and JProbe using the same link.
In 8.3, we've extended this capability to include individual tracking of prepared SQL statements and integration of SQL Optimizer for Oracle right in the UI (to save you having to copy and paste).
By default, the JDBC tab in the Summary view only shows Oracle DML statements (such as Select, Insert, Update and Delete). If you are running on the Windows OS and you have a copy of SQL Optimizer for Oracle installed, you will see a "Tune SQL Statement" menu option.
Executed SQL statements listed which can be tuned automatically using the SQL Optimizer for Oracle.
Licensing has been improved in 8.3, with auto-detection of the appropriate license key file – and you'll be pleased to know that no license key changes will be required with 8.3 being unlocked by any JProbe 8.x license key.
A new feature in the JProbe Performance profiler allows you to obtain basic memory information via an HPROF heap dump for later analysis without interruption of your performance analysis session. This feature requires a Sun 1.6 version JVM.
Creation of a JProbe Snapshot via HPROF
Several new command-line tools allow increased access to and control of JProbe sessions from a command-line environment. operating systems as well as
Finally, we made some essential platform changes such as support for Windows 7 
and HP-UX 
(Note - 11i v3 for Itanium only) SpringSource dm Server 2.0.0 
(on Windows), GlassFish 3.0 
and Java Service Wrapper 
(often used with JBoss & Geronimo) application servers. You'll be pleased to know we've also restored support for BEA Weblogic Server 8.1.x 
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The following IDEs are supported:
- Eclipse 3.3, 3.4 and 3.5
- MyEclipse 7.x
For customers preferring a physical shipment of the product, this is now available on DVD.
Well, I hope that's wetted you appetite and that you'll eagerly be waiting for the announcement that we've released JProbe 8.3.
On a final note, if you haven't used JProbe in a while and think it's the same tool you've used before; think again. This JProbe is a different user experience from any you've used before and is still the most complete Java profiling tool out there.