Removing BugSpot

[Staffan Larsen]

Here is an early webrev of the changes I'm working on. 

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sla/remove-bugspot/webrev/

This isn't a formal code review yet, but I'll be happy for any feedback on the changes.

Thanks,
/Staffan


On 16 apr 2012, at 10:51, Krystal Mok wrote:

> Hi Staffan,
> 
> Alright, then I'm ok with this :-)
> 
> Thanks,
> Kris
> 
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Staffan Larsen <staffan.larsen at oracle.com> wrote:
> Hi Krystal,
> 
> Those tools can all use HotSpotAgent instead without any loss of functionality.
> 
> Regards,
> /Staffan
> 
> 
> On 16 apr 2012, at 10:21, Krystal Mok wrote:
> 
>> Hi Staffan,
>> 
>> There are quite a few tools depending on BugSpotAgent for attaching. At least all tools that inherit from sun.jvm.hotspot.tools.Tool do.
>> Removing the BugSpot frontend shouldn't affect those tools, or would it?
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Kris
>> 
>> On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 6:32 PM, Staffan Larsen <staffan.larsen at oracle.com> wrote:
>> All,
>> 
>> I'd like to remove the BugSpot front end from SA in an effort to clean up the SA code and reduce the number of implementations. My understanding is that BugSpot was intended as a more general native debugger not only focused on the JVM, but that it was never fully implemented. I don't think there is a need for a general-purpose debugger in SA.
>> 
>> The features that will change are:
>> * BugSpot graphical UI will be removed
>> * PStack and PMap will no longer be able to operate on executables other than the JVM
>> * Some code only referenced from BugSpot will be removed
>> 
>> Does anyone know of a reason this is not a good idea? I don't have the full history of SA nor all the use cases so I would appreciate feedback.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> /Staffan
>> 
> 
> 

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