Just like the JRockit Runtime Analyzer, the JRockit Flight Recorder consists of two parts—a recording engine built into the JRockit JVM and an analysis tool built into the JRockit Mission Control client. The recording engine produces a recording file that can be analyzed. The file does not require an active connection; the format is self describing, that is, all metadata that the recording needs is part of the recording and can be saved for later or sent to a third party for further analysis.
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Throughout this chapter, we will use the terms JRockit Flight Recorder and Flight Recorder interchangeably.
With JRockit Flight Recorder, recordings are no longer in XML format. Everything is recorded as time-stamped events in internal memory buffers and written to a binary file, which constitutes the recording. There is also a public Java API available for providing custom events to the JRockit recording engine, and a design mode that allows the creation of custom designed...