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18 articles tagged Debugging.

XML Editor…

  • Debugging
  • Tools
  • XSLT

I was asked recently what XML, XSD and XSLT editor I use. Given that I am an independent/small consulting firm owner, spending $1000s of dollars on development tooling that will come out of my own pocket is not my first choice.

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Capturing JVM TCP Traffic

  • Debugging
  • JVM Internals
  • Troubleshooting

Any time you have a distributed application, there is network communication involved. Capturing this network traffic can be instrumental in diagnosing and solving problems. Generally, to capturing network traffic, superuser privledges, timing, and a bit of luck is needed. Often, the appropriate…

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Generating Thread Dumps from a Sun or IBM JVM Running As A Windows Service

  • Debugging
  • JVM Internals
  • Linux

I was recently asked if there was a way to generate a Thread Dump from a JVM running as a Windows Service. It occured to me that I had a similar issue during my Masters Project when I was trying to generate a thread dump from a Cygwin xterm; Googling at the time turned up no good way of accomplishing the task. But, I knew that you could use the Java Debugger that ships with the Sun JDK, jdb, to generate a thread dump of all non-System Threads in a JVM. I posed this as a solution to generating Thread Dumps from a JVM running as a Windows Service.

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