JMC 7 Early Access Builds Available (and New Packaging)

Early access builds of JDK Mission Control are now available. They can be fetched from here:

http://jdk.java.net/jmc/

With JMC 7, we are switching to a new delivery model, with a separate installer for JMC. There are multiple reasons for this, such as having one deliverable which supports both OpenJDK and the Oracle JDK, and wasting less disk space for those of us having multiple JDKs installed.

I wrote a blog together with Aurelio with more information here:

https://blogs.oracle.com/java-platform-group/java-mission-control-now-serving-openjdk-binaries-too

We’re still working on providing a good way to provide feedback. Within a few weeks, you should be able to provide feedback through webbugs. Until then, the best way is to talk to us at the OFTC #jmc channel.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

28 Responses to "JMC 7 Early Access Builds Available (and New Packaging)"

  1. Bernd says:

    Could you add a link from the project page http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jmc/ to the downloads (and add release announcements there) as well please. It’s still pretty hard to see what’s going on in the project,

  2. Radim says:

    Hello, as a big fan of JMC 5.x, is there any explanation why the UI did change in 6 and 7 so much? Regrettably not for the better from my POV – it seems that the focus is mostly on automatic analysis rather than presenting ‘raw’ data.

    As an example, one of the common tasks I’ve used to do is go to Memory/Allocation in new TLAB/Allocation by class and start examining the allocation hotspots. I can’t find how to execute that workflow in JMC 7.0. Instead, it now shows break-up by allocating threads (with dozens of worker threads it is of little use).

    Thanks

  3. Marcus says:

    It has been updated!

  4. Marcus says:

    Hi Radim,

    In your case, simply go to Memory and sort on Total allocation. It will use a statistical estimate of the total allocation per class (using the Inside of TLAB events together with the Outside of TLAB events), basically doing what you’d normally be doing in your head for you. 🙂

    Yes, things have changed, and you will sometimes have to look in new places, or do things very differently. But they are not necessarily worse. Some time was spent trying to make the UI easier to use for novice users. Sadly that meant, in some instances, to confuse existing users of JMC 5.x. Also, there is a longer story here that deserves to be told too, even though it may not be applicable to this particular case…

    Sadly, the JMC team was pulled away 5.5 months early from the JMC 6 project (to help out with another effort), so there was preciously little time for polishing. After that the open sourcing took all of the team’s time. Open sourcing a closed source project, is, as anyone who have done it will testify, an immense effort. And after that, well, many of you already know what happened to the Swedish part of the JMC team…

    That said, the new core has some important upgrades, not the least being the new core parser APIs, the filtering, the aggregation and the flexible mechanisms for using these mechanisms in various parts of the UIs. And, as you mentioned, the automated analysis. The foundations are there, but the UI didn’t quite have time to catch up with it all.

    To play with some of it, try my jmc-jshell:
    https://github.com/thegreystone/jmc-jshell

    After Code One I will post a full Hands-on-Lab that will hopefully help explain some of these powerful features. I’ll also try to pick up blogging a bit again.

  5. Valentin says:

    Today (2019-Jan-30) is supposed to be the general availability day for JMC 7 according to the schedule here: http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jmc/7/ But it didn’t happen and the page itself were updated 4 months ago. Does anyone knows anything about the current plans?

  6. Marcus says:

    Hi Valentin,

    Glad you noticed! We’re unfortunately slightly delayed. The current estimate is that it will not be more than a month, but we don’t have a new date at this time.

  7. Valentin says:

    Hi Marcus,

    Thanks for the information! It may be a good idea to also update the “Schedule” posted at http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jmc/7/ for the sake of other people who waiting for the new JMC.

  8. Marcus says:

    Yep, already did. I’m just waiting for a review so that I can push it. 😉

  9. ChrisB says:

    Hi Marcus,

    Just curious…. Has there been any more progress towards getting JMC out the door?

  10. Marcus says:

    That is a great question! It really should be out by now. I suggest directing the question to Oracle; seems to be some hold up over there. Mario Torres (Red Hat), also asked the question on the jmc-dev mailinglist recently. I have also asked Oracle directly, but I haven’t gotten a date yet. Technically the release is pretty much done. There isn’t much happening in the release repo at this point.

  11. FotisK says:

    Hello Marcus,
    As we have already reached May and still no JMC official release, what is the latest status?
    Or where should I ask to get a concrete answer on the release plan?
    Also new OpenJDK versions are getting released (12 already out and 13 is planned for September as I noticed), so in which release do we expect to have JMC? I currently have JDK 11 installed and I plan to migrate to JDK12.

  12. Lee says:

    Any news?

  13. Marcus says:

    Hi there,

    Here is a recent statement on the jmc-dev list:
    https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jmc-dev/2019-May/000996.html

    In short, I will declare the source release of JMC 7.0.0 done after this iteration, and then it will be up to downstream vendors, like Oracle, Red Hat and Azul, to do their final testing and release.

  14. Ross says:

    Any news about the impending release of JMC 7?

    Thanks.

  15. Marcus says:

    It has been released in binary form by several downstream vendors. Not sure exactly what is happening with the Oracle release.

  16. Ross says:

    Thanks for the info. Is there any person whom, or forum that, I can contact to find out about when Oracle plans to release JMC 7?

    I assume not, but I imagine that it doesn’t hurt to have asked…

  17. Marcus says:

    Hi Ross,

    Guru Hb at the Oracle JMC team has told me that the release will happen before the Code One conference. 🙂

  18. Ross says:

    Great! Thanks.

  19. Daniel says:

    It is 17th september, conference started yesterday and still “General Availability (delayed)” and “Latest build: TBD” and “Updated Early Access build bundles are coming soon.”

  20. Ross says:

    Code One is over, yet I haven’t noticed the release of JMC 7.

    Did I somehow miss it?

    Any info would be appreciated.

    Thanks again.

  21. Ross says:

    I still can’t find any downloads for Java Mission Control 7. Have I missed something?

  22. Travis says:

    I sure would love to build JMC 7 from the Hg ‘jmc7’ repo, but I keep getting stuck at:

    Unable to read repository at http://download.eclipse.org/releases/2019-03/compositeContent.jar. Read timed out -> [Help 1]

    Is there some way around this, or do we just have to keep waiting for the long-promised binary releases?

  23. Marcus says:

    There are release builds of JMC 7.0.0 from various vendors already if you don’t want to build JMC yourself. Liberica Mission Control, Zulu Mission Control, RedHat builds etc.

    I just tried building jmc7, and it builds fine for me. Did you follow the instructions in the README in the root? If so, are you perhaps experiencing some proxy related problem?

  24. Marcus says:

    No. Oracle is still working through their release process. It is taking longer than expected. That said, you can get binary releases of JMC 7.0.0 from various other sources already (see Liberica Mission Control, Zulu Mission Control, Red Hat’s builds etc).

  25. Marcus says:

    It’s taking longer for Oracle to work through the release process than expected. That said, you can get binary releases of JMC 7.0.0 from various other sources already (see Liberica Mission Control, Zulu Mission Control, Red Hat’s builds etc).

  26. Marcus says:

    Yep, it’s taking longer than expected. That said, you can get binary releases of JMC 7.0.0 from various other sources already (see Liberica Mission Control, Zulu Mission Control, Red Hat’s builds etc).

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