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List: openjdk-serviceability-dev
Subject: JDI binding for the Serviceability Agent
From: Jim.Holmlund () Sun ! COM (Jim Holmlund)
Date: 2008-03-06 19:52:58
Message-ID: 47D04B9A.6050209 () Sun ! COM
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Hello Jie Yu. You are correct that the only way to debug without starting
the Java program in debug mode with -agentlib:.... is to use the
SAPIDAttachingConnector,
and then you can only read information out of the VM - you can't modify
the state.
For JDK 7, we are investigating a feature we call 'attach on demand
debugging'
which would do just what you are asking for.
The 'SA' in SAPIDAttachingConnector stands for Serviceability Agent.
All the files under the hotspot/agent directory that you reference below
are part of the Serviceability Agent. You can find out more about the
SA here:
http://openjdk.java.net/groups/hotspot/docs/Serviceability.html#bsa
SA is also used by HotSpot engineers to debug HotSpot itself. The
files you mention under the hotspot/livejvm are used for that.
HTH
- jjh
Jie Yu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am a student from Fudan University, China. I am working on a project that uses \
> JPDA of JDK6. I want to debug a live java program that is not start with any debug \
> options (e.g. -agentlib:jdwp or -Xdebug). For this reason, I can choose the \
> SAPIDAttachingConnector. But the VirtualMachine object returned by this connector's \
> attach() method is 'read-only', meaning that I cannot modify the state of the live \
> java program. Is there any other options for me? I scan the source tree of openjdk, \
> and find that in hotspot/agent/src/share/classes/sun/jvm/hotspot/livejvm, there are \
> some related source files. What are these files for? Are they related to my \
> problem?
> Best regards,
>
> Jie Yu
>
>
>
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