At the time of this writing, out-of-the-box Jolkia agents are WAR (Java EE web application) Agent, OSGi Agent, JVM JDK6 Agent, and the Mule Agent. I focus on the JVM JDK6 Agent in this post.

The package-level documentation for the java.lang.instrument package describes two ways an implementation might allow use JVM instrumentation. The first approach (and the one highlighted in this ...

Java instrumentation and sampling tools Java Flight Recorder is the de facto Java sampling tool, having been built directly into the JVM since the Java 8 LTS release. Incredibly efficient, the default ...

A Java agent is a jar file that provide s access by the JVM to an Instrumentation object to enables you to modify bytecode that has already been loaded into the JVM to alter its behaviour.

The terms JVM tuning and Java optimization are often used interchangeably, but there is an important difference between the two practices. In short, JVM tuning requires some tradeoff between metrics ...

BellSoft, the creator of Liberica JDK, a progressive Java runtime for the most complete Java experience and a leading OpenJDK contributor, today announced a major upgrade to Liberica JDK ...