More Info About the Profiler

For regular readers of this blog, the
NetBeans Profiler is old news. But that
does not mean the Profiler is sitting still. There will be a few new features
in version 5.5 of the IDE,
which will hopefully be in beta by JavaOne.
In addition, two
members of the Profiler development team have recently published documents that
provide detailed information on using the Profiler.

Maros Sandor has an excellent
article on how to profile a NetBeans plug-in module.
The development of
plug-in modules was made dramatically easier by features added in
version 5.0
of the NetBeans IDE.
With integrated support from the Profiler, plug-in module
development gets even easier.

If you want to profile web and enterprise applications, then you need to check
out these
new Profiler online help docs that were written by Jiri Sedlacek. The NetBeans
Profiler provides support for a variety of different use cases and Jiri describes
the most common (and also some less common) use cases. One
thing I particularly like is his list of
general profiling tips, which apply
not just to web and enterprise applications, but to the profiling of any type
of application.