CodeTools proposal: "BTrace"

[Jonathan Gibbons]

Sundar,

Thanks for the proposal.

-- Jon


On 05/04/2016 07:16 PM, Sundararajan Athijegannathan wrote:
> Name: BTrace
>
> Summary: A byte code instrumentation based dynamic tracing tool for the
> Java platform.
>
> Proposed by: Sundararajan Athijegannathan
>
> Rationale: BTrace is already an Open Source project located @ kenai.com
>
> https://kenai.com/projects/btrace
>
> This is not a proposal for a new project, it is a proposal for a
> transfer of the BTrace (kenai.com) project into the OpenJDK CodeTools
> community, and moderation under OpenJDK bylaws.
>
> BTrace is a safe, dynamic tracing tool for the Java platform. BTrace can
> be used to dynamically trace a running
> Java program (similar to DTrace for OpenSolaris applications and OS).
> BTrace dynamically instruments the classes
> of the target application to inject tracing code ("bytecode tracing").
> Tracing code is expressed in Java programming language. BTrace is
> developed under GPLv2+CP.
>
> I started the BTrace (kenai.com) project by June 2009. Jarsolav Bachorik
> [CC'ed] has contributed significantly to BTrace.
> He has been maintaining & improving btrace. We expect to continue this
> charter through the inclusion of BTrace as a OpenJDK/codetools sub-project.
>
> Regards,
> -Sundar