RFR(M): 7165259 Remove BugSpot

[Staffan Larsen]

Thanks Kris!

Yeah, it would be a nice project to build a full-fledged debugger, but very hard to justify the resources spent :-)  I think instead we should view SA as a great tool to dig out JVM-specific data from a process/core - the things a normal debugger knows nothing about.

/Staffan



On 22 feb 2013, at 10:27, Krystal Mo <krystal.mo at oracle.com> wrote:

> Hi Staffan,
> 
> Looks good to me (not a Reviewer).
> 
> I had a slight hope in that someday we'll be able to morph Serviceability Agent into what it was meant to be -- a full-fledged mixed-mode debugger for HotSpot.
> But with the current resources available, I guess we'll just have to accept that it's not going to happen... So I'm alright with this change.
> 
> Thanks,
> Kris
> 
> On 2013/2/21 7:38, Staffan Larsen wrote:
>> Please review the following change to remove the BugSpot UI for the Serviceability Agent. 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 and would like to clean up the code. One effect of this change is that PStack and PMap will no longer be able to operate on executables other than the JVM.
>> 
>> This change was first proposed last year in this thread: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/serviceability-dev/2012-April/005811.html
>> 
>> This change also removes some old JVMDI code in SA (JVMDI is no longer supported in HotSpot).
>> 
>> 
>> bug: http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7165259
>> 
>> webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sla/7165259/webrev.00/
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> /Staffan
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