Proposal to introduce method "Instrumentation.getInstance()" to instrument the current VM

[Alan Bateman]

On 30/09/2016 09:39, Rafael Winterhalter wrote:

> I agree that this should be considered carefully.
>
> However, without a security manager, it is already possible to get 
> such an instance for most environments. And starting with Java 9, this 
> will extend to non JDK-VMs as the former tools.jar is now a module.
Assuming you mean the jdk.attach module then it's JDK-specific. It's not 
linked into the runtime image that is the JRE for example.

In any case, this proposal is a significant concern as it is exposing 
capabilities in the standard API that were intended for tool agents. The 
implications are huge.

-Alan