VisualVM in IcedTea6

[Lillian Angel]

Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> 2008/7/30 Matthias Klose <doko at ubuntu.com>:
>   
>> Joshua Sumali schrieb:
>>     
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> VisualVM is now buildable with IcedTea6 on 32 and 64 bit arch by passing
>>> --enable-visualvm to configure. Details and screenshots can be found at
>>> http://jsumali.wordpress.com/2008/07/29/visualvm-in-icedtea/
>>>       
>> Thanks for preparing this. Is there an advantage of building this as part of
>> IcedTea? From a first look the build seems to be independent from building
>> "core" IcedTea. It delays the build, increases the source code size, and adds
>> the burden to review licenses for another 30MB compressed source code. Does the
>> IcedTea project have to have just one product to deliver, or could this be
>> splitted out into a second delivery?
>>
>>  Matthias
>>
>>     
>
> Have to say I wondered what was going on when I saw the ChangeLog entry,
> and I still don't understand the reasoning.  Is there a reason this
> has to be built WITH the
> VM?  If it's a truly separate application, then building them against
> each other is a job
> for a distro.  Otherwise, the next logical step is --with-eclipse,
> --with-jboss, --with-glassfish, etc.
>   

VisualVM is a tool we would eventually like to ship with 
IcedTea/OpenJDK. Right now it is not enabled by default because of the 
NetBeans requirement. There has been some progress to get NetBeans 
packaged in Fedora, and when that happens we wont require 
NetBeans/profiler to build visualvm. Since visualvm has been GPL'd and 
is a really cool tool, we would like to have it in Fedora eventually. 
This is just the first step until that can be done.



Lillian