The Cure for Ailing Java
PRODUCT:
JProbe ServerSide Suite 2.5
By John Pearson
When I was in my early 20s, I spent two delightful years in Chile. Though I had taken Spanish, I still encountered strange words. One of the words I remember was mentolato, which describes a jack-of-all-trades. When I asked what it meant, I was shown a jar of Mentholatum and told that it was used to make everything better: colds, coughs, cuts, cold sores, and more.
KL Group's JProbe ServerSide Suite is Mentholatum for Java. It can fix a variety of ailments in your Java code. The Suite includes three separate tools: the Performance Profiler and Memory Debugger, Coverage, and Threadalyzer—a thread analyzer. You can start these tools individually or use the JProbe LaunchPad. You can use several of the tools at once, or even purchase them separately if you don't need them all.
More importantly, you can have several instances of each program running at the same time. So you can run and analyze multiple applications, servlets, or applets simultaneously. This lets you check the system while it's running and watch the interaction between pieces, rather than having to run an applet in a test frame and hope your testing is accurate.
There are common threads running through all these tools. Each has the ability to configure which classes the tool will include or exclude. This lets you zoom in on the areas that interest you—a real time saver.
