Get full access to Java 9: Building Robust Modular Applications and 60K+ other titles, with a free 10-day trial of O'Reilly.

There are also live events, courses curated by job role, and more.

Start your free trial

Heap profiling agent [JEP 240]

Java Enhancement Proposal 240 is titled Remove the JVM TI hprof Agent. Here are the key terms associated with this JEP and referenced in the title that might be new to you:

Tool Interface (TI): This is a native programming interface that allows tools to control the execution of applications that are being run inside the Java Virtual Machine. The interface also permits state inquiries. The full nomenclature for this tool is the Java Virtual Machine Tool Interface, or JVM TI.
Heap Profiling (HPROF): This is an internal JDK tool used for profiling a JVM's use of CPUs and the heap. The most common exposure developers have to hprof is the file that is generated when following a crash. The generated file contains ...

Get Java 9: Building Robust Modular Applications now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.

Start your free trial

Don’t leave empty-handed

Get Mark Richards’s Software Architecture Patterns ebook to better understand how to design components—and how they should interact.

It’s yours, free.

Get it now

Check it out now on O’Reilly

Dive in for free with a 10-day trial of the O’Reilly learning platform—then explore all the other resources our members count on to build skills and solve problems every day.

Start your free trial Become a member now