InfoQ has put online my presentation on maintaining java applications in production environment.
Some of the tools mentioned in the presentations changed ownership since, but the basics are still very valid.
Most notable changes:
- Sysinternals (FileMon, ProcessMon, etc) is now owned by Microsoft. I have mixed feelings about that one, but the tools are still the best on the market (and free).
- Ethereal is now Wireshark. The change is due to some people/company conflict, so Ethereal is now a dead name/site. Wireshark, on the other hand, is getting better and better. This is exactly the situation where forking open-source project is a good alternative.
There are also new tools, that just did not exist at the time of writing. The best one is Firebug plugin for Firefox. It just rocks.
March 7th, 2007 at 11:50 am
just stumbled upon your site. Great info. fwiw, I’m more into ops than programming but found the tools stuff really good. Still getting my head wrapped around java because I’m basically a dba doing ops work. thanks again.
March 7th, 2007 at 12:23 pm
Hi John,
Glad you like the website. I hope you will find tools mentioned in presentation and here useful with your work. When I did support, many operations people liked my suggestions of these tools.
March 7th, 2007 at 5:21 pm
Firebug looks pretty handy.
Do you know of any similar tool for IE?
March 7th, 2007 at 5:25 pm
I am having trouble to watch the video clip of your presentation “Java troubleshooting” on InfoQ. The video stream is always got disrupted.
Can you send me a soft copy of your presentation slides?
Thanks a lot
March 7th, 2007 at 5:42 pm
Hui Lin,
Unfortunately, IE is much less accessible to the tools. The only good tools I know are ieHTTPHeaders for network analysis (website was down right now) and Web Accessibility Toolbar for web page analysis and modification. They are not in the same league as Firebug however.
I will put the slides online shortly.
March 7th, 2007 at 9:10 pm
Slides are now available. More information in the next blog article.
March 9th, 2007 at 11:01 am
Thanks a lot.