A great move, now NetBeans Profiler is integrated into the latest Netbeans 6.0 milestone 8, and comes directly with NetBeans, no need to download and install it separately.

I’ve been using the Profiler for months now, and can honestly say that the strong desire to buy a commercial profiler is no more. The latest NetBeans Profiler does all or almost all that I need, including performance analysis, memory analysis, heap dumps, compatibility with jhat, partial class instrumentation (no need to instrument the whole application).

The two missing in Profiler 5.5 features are now implemented, and work:

1. Heap Walker
2. Compare Memory Snapshots

I’ve been also quite surprised by performance of instrumented code. Yes, it’s slower than non-instrumented code, but the difference is not that big, so I can execute my apps under profiler and they run without major performance degradation.

Overall, the memory and performance analysis in Java has become much more easy and fun.

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