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Which Java profiler is better: JProfiler or YourKit?

Asked 2008-10-02T18:02:04.773
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Which profiler is better for general purpose profiling and heap analysis? 90% of our apps are standalone command line programs with substantial database and numeric processing. The other 10% are webapps/servlet container apps (with very little JSP and NO SCRIPLETS!). Target user would be Sr Software Engineer with 5-10 years of industry experience. We need support only for Sun JDK 5 and.

As of writing this question (2008-10-02), JProfiler was at 5.1.4 and YourKit was 7.5. Looks like YourKit 8.0 will be released soon.

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i've used yourkit and it is a very nice profiler, the best i've ever used in java (i've used a variety of others over the years). that being said, i've never used jprofiler, so i can't give a direct comparison.

answered 2008-10-02T20:18:57.253
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YourKit is great. You might also want to check out the profiler built into NetBeans--it's pretty cool.

answered 2008-10-03T19:02:44.963

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