Profiler, the better debugger?
Tools in Action Abstract
It seems obvious : if an application doesn't do what it should, we use a debugger. When its slow we use a profiler. But is this always the right thing to do? Especially when large frameworks come into the game or one runs into transaction timeouts while stepping through code, debugging is no longer easy.
Also if you start looking at some unknown code, it's not so easy to get an idea on where to start stepping through the code.
This session will show how a profiler can help to get an idea on how the code works, which can not easily be solved by a debugger. The talk is supposed to encourage developers to try alternative, unconventional ways to look at issues.
Speaker
Heiko W. Rupp has a Diploma in Computer Science and works as developer at Red hat in the area of JBoss ON. In the past he has contributed code to JBossAS and other open source projects.
Heiko is the author of the first German JBoss book and of one of the first German books on EJB 3.
