Contents

Title and Copyright Information

Preface

• About this Document
• Documentation Accessibility
• Conventions

1 New Features and Enhancements

• 1.1 New Features and Enhancements in Release 4.1
  • 1.1.1 Support for Oracle JDK 7
  • 1.1.2 New Platforms
  • 1.1.3 Upgrade to Eclipse 3.7
  • 1.1.4 Support for Associating JRockit Flight Recorder File with the JRockit Mission Control Client on Windows
  • 1.1.5 New DTrace Plug-in
  • 1.1.6 New Features and Enhancements in Mangement Console
  • 1.1.7 New Features and Enhancements in JRockit Flight Recorder
  • 1.1.8 New Features and Enhancements in JRockit Memory Leak Detector
• 1.2 New Features and Enhancements in Release 4.0
  • 1.2.1 Upgrade to Eclipse 3.5
  • 1.2.2 Oracle JRockit Flight Recorder
  • 1.2.3 Updated Memory Leak Detector
    • 1.2.3.1 New Look and Feel
    • 1.2.3.2 Shortest Path to Garbage Collection Root
    • 1.2.3.3 Improved Instance Listing
    • 1.2.3.4 Class Loader Support Added
  • 1.2.4 Restart Prompt Added When High Contrast Mode is Enabled or Disabled
  • 1.2.5 Welcome Page Added to RCP Version of JRockit Mission Control
  • 1.2.6 Auto-Scale Feature Improved
  • 1.2.7 Sorting Tables from the Context Menu
  • 1.2.8 Line Graphs with Only One Value are Easier to See
  • 1.2.9 Optional Labels Available for Graphic Controls on GUI

2 Resolved Issues

• 2.1 Issues Resolved in Release 4.1
  • 2.1.1 The Entire Operative Set is No Longer Visible on Event Tabs
  • 2.1.2 Export Graph To Image Works in Release 4.1
  • 2.1.3 Issue with Modifier Keys for Memory Leak Graphs Is Resolved
  • 2.1.4 Reason for Garbage Collection is Presented in Flight Recorder
  • 2.1.5 Error When you Kill a Monitored Java Process
  • 2.1.6 JRockit Mission Control Can Read MBeans Deployed by JBoss
• 2.2 Issues Resolved in Release 4.0
  • 2.2.1 Dial Properties Popup Accessibility Issue Resolved
  • 2.2.2 Zooming-In to Console No Longer Throws Exception
  • 2.2.3 Colors are No Longer Hard Coded in the Management Console
  • 2.2.4 Graphs with Single Value Strange No Longer Can Appear Blank
  • 2.2.5 Some Hardcoded Strings Required Externalization

3 Known Issues

• 3.1 Issue with Menu Items in the Flight Recorder View On Linux
• 3.2 Issues while Using Large Fonts in Flight Recorder View
• 3.3 NullPointerException Occurs when the JVM Fails
• 3.4 The Internal Help Browser Fails due to Proxy Settings
• 3.5 The Option to Set Help Context does Not Work on Linux
• 3.6 Issue with Latency Data in Flight Recorder
• 3.7 MBean Exposure
• 3.8 JRockit Mission Control Crashes When Using Chinese Locale on Solaris 10
• 3.9 Strings Generated from Server-Side Metadata Not Translated
• 3.10 GUI Strings Might be Truncated on Linux
• 3.11 Linux Welcome Page Might be Blank Without Mozilla Path
• 3.12 JRockit Mission Control Client Not Supported With X-Win32
• 3.13 Some RCP Strings Are Not Localized
• 3.14 JVM Crashes With Older Versions of libpango when Exiting Mission Control
• 3.15 Visible Columns Not Always Available on Flight Recorder Context Menu