The easiest way to both control the life cycle of recordings and transfer whole or parts of recordings to JRockit Mission Control, is to do everything from inside the JRockit Mission Control client.
Starting a JRA-style time-bound recording is quite similar to how it was done in previous JRockit versions, using JRA—simply right click on the JVM in the JVM Browser, and then click on Start Flight Recording....
In JRockit Mission Control 4.0, two things will happen:
The Start Flight Recording wizard dialog box will open.
The Flight Recorder Control view will open.
The Flight Recorder Control view is new for JRockit Mission Control 4.0. It shows the recordings available for one or more connections, and can also be used for controlling the recordings. It is quite useful for checking if any recordings are already running in the JVM. In the following screenshot, the continuous recording is already running:
Similar to JRA, this wizard contains a few built...