Java Application Profiling using TPTP

Summary

The Eclipse Test & Performance Tools Platform (TPTP) Profiling tool can be used to profile Eclipse plug-ins, local Java(TM) applications or complex applications running on multiple hosts and different platforms. The tool is tightly integrated with Eclipse, allowing profiling of applications running from within Eclipse.
This article demonstrates how to use the TPTP Profiling tool to profile a Java application for identifying execution related hot spots. It shows how to start the profiling session, use the various TPTP views to analyze the data, identify methods with high execution time then jump to the source code to fix the performance problem.

By Valentina Popescu, IBM

February 21, 2006 (updated July 11, 2006)