Chapter 1

Diagnostic Tools and Options

This chapter introduces the various diagnostic and monitoring tools which can be used with Java Platform Standard Edition Development Kit 6 (JDK 6 or Java SE 6). The tools are described in detail in Chapter 2, Detailed Tool Descriptions.

See Appendix D, Summary of Tools in This Release for a list of tools available in this release of Java SE, as well as the changes since the previous release.

Note - Some of the command-line utilities described in this chapter are experimental. The jstack, jinfo, and jmap utilities are examples of utilities that are experimental. These utilities are subject to change in future JDK releases, and might not be included in future releases.