Hi Staffan, Alright, then I'm ok with this :-)
Thanks, Kris On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Staffan Larsen <staffan.lar...@oracle.com>wrote: > Hi Krystal, > > Those tools can all use HotSpotAgent instead without any loss of > functionality. > > Regards, > /Staffan > > > On 16 apr 2012, at 10:21, Krystal Mok wrote: > > Hi Staffan, > > There are quite a few tools depending on BugSpotAgent for attaching. At > least all tools that inherit from sun.jvm.hotspot.tools.Tool do. > Removing the BugSpot frontend shouldn't affect those tools, or would it? > > Regards, > Kris > > On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 6:32 PM, Staffan Larsen <staffan.lar...@oracle.com > > wrote: > >> All, >> >> I'd like to remove the BugSpot front end from SA in an effort to clean up >> the SA code and reduce the number of implementations. My understanding is >> that BugSpot was intended as a more general native debugger not only >> focused on the JVM, but that it was never fully implemented. I don't think >> there is a need for a general-purpose debugger in SA. >> >> The features that will change are: >> * BugSpot graphical UI will be removed >> * PStack and PMap will no longer be able to operate on executables other >> than the JVM >> * Some code only referenced from BugSpot will be removed >> >> Does anyone know of a reason this is not a good idea? I don't have the >> full history of SA nor all the use cases so I would appreciate feedback. >> >> Thanks, >> /Staffan > > > >
