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Re: btrace and dtrace

From: Jerome Dochez <Jerome.Dochez_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:03:02 -0700

we need to write the functional spec and then present at asarch. I am
working with Abhijit on the schedule for those specs, then we can do
asarch reviews.

jerome

On Jun 4, 2008, at 10:53 AM, Mahesh Kannan wrote:

> 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
>>
>>
>> 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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