JRockit Mission Control started out as a set of internal tools used by the JRockit team to monitor and tune the JRockit JVM in order to make it a better Java runtime. The early analysis tools were initially not available to end customers. However, after we used the tools to resolve a couple of high profile customer issues, the word started to spread. We realized that customers found the tools useful when tuning and profiling their Java applications, and consequently the tools were made more user friendly, packaged together, and released as the Java tools suite known as JRockit Mission Control.

Today, the JRockit Mission Control tools suite is a set of tools for monitoring, managing and profiling Java applications running on JRockit. It also includes a powerful tool for tracking down memory leaks. The JRockit Mission Control tools can, with very little overhead, retrieve a profile that is a fair approximation of the actual runtime behavior of an application. Most other profilers...