Exposing the Depth JDK 7.0 Applications with DTrace
LAB-9400

DTrace is a comprehensive dynamic tracing framework for the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS). It provides a powerful infrastructure to enable administrators, developers, and service personnel to concisely answer arbitrary questions about the behavior of the operating system and user programs.

This Hands-on Lab has something for everyone, including some DTrace basics for those that are new to it and ideas on using DTrace for scripting languages. For experienced DTrace users, it discusses creating user-land statically defined tracing (USDT) probes in Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE platform) release 7.0 applications. For the superadvanced, the presentation covers using the Java technology-based and C APIs for DTrace.

Prerequisites: user-level knowledge of the Java platform and the Solaris OS or other UNIX®-like OS.

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