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VisualVM - and So Part of Netbeans, Is Part of JDK 1.6 Update 7 Now 📎
JDK 1.6 update 7+ is delivered with visualvm; a powerful monitoring and profiling tool. Visualvm comes with a profiler, which is actually part of Netbeans. Visualvm is a Netbeans RCP application (about 10 MB), which can be extended with Netbeans modules / plugins. So Netbeans RCP becomes ubiquitous :-).