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Re: btrace and dtrace

From: Mahesh Kannan <Mahesh.Kannan_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:53:40 -0700

Bill Shannon wrote:
> "planning to do in gprobes for glassfish"?
>
> Where's the plan?
Hi Bill,

  Is it OK if we present this in asarch?

Thanks,
--Mahesh
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> Mahesh Kannan wrote:
>> Hi Bill,
>>
>> Kohsuke and I too looked into btrace.
>>
>> Infact, Kohsuke and I had a discussion with Sundar too after J1 and
>> have metnioned some of our gprobes ideas. He also agreed that there
>> needs to be some changes to btrace implementation to meet some of our
>> needs. We can certainly use some of the ideas OR use it as an
>> underlying farmework (after changing it) for glassfish.
>>
>> Regarding dtrace support in JDK7,
>> The approach mentioned in the blog
>> (http://blogs.sun.com/kamg/entry/announcing_statically_defined_dtrace_probes)
>> requires a static probe provider interface. This is exactly same as
>> what we are planning to do in gprobes for glassfish. We can use the
>> same interface (after dynamically retransforming this interface to
>> extend com.sun.tracing.Provider) to obtain a dtrace ProbeProvider.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> --Mahesh
>>
>> Sahoo wrote:
>>> I had briefly looked at btrace sometime back. It's a very useful
>>> serviceability tool. Sundar, the author of btrace, is ready to help
>>> us if we want to use it in GlassFish. I know he was writing some
>>> probes for the JDBC layer of GlassFish to demonstrate the power of
>>> btrace during btrace BoF at J1 this year.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Sahoo
>>>
>>> Bill Shannon wrote:
>>>> Has anyone played with btrace (https://btrace.dev.java.net/)?
>>>>
>>>> Has anyone looked at adding dtrace probes to GlassFish?
>>>> http://blogs.sun.com/kamg/entry/announcing_statically_defined_dtrace_probes
>>>>
>>>> Hopefully they'll make the com.sun.tracing package available for
>>>> pre-JDK7 releases, at least as a nop, so we can start putting in
>>>> probes now.
>>>>
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