Enhancement Idea - HTTP / Socks Proxy for Web App Profiling.

[Replogle, Andrew]

Hi,

I’ve used netbeans profiler in a limited scope as well as jprofiler and jprobe and had a thought for a feature that I’ve seen missing in everything I’ve worked with.

When doing web application profiling, there’s often a lot of package / class filtering that goes on depending on what you’re trying to see. I was trying to figure out how you could assign the action of profiling to a timeline to figure out what happens when, because, at least in web application profiling, you want to see what are your suspect methods for a particular sequence or workflow.

My suggestion is an HTTP or SOCKS proxy that the profiler would start up and all the requests / responses for the web application being profiled could be routed through. This way you could provide views for classes / methods based on which pages / actions are executed instead of having to wade through lots of data all at once. It could give you that time-line effect per-se.

This could be useful for non-web apps too, if you went a SOCKS proxy route, you could apply this to any application that could support SOCKS based proxies.

Does anyone else think that this would be a useful feature for a profiler? Is there somewhere I can submit this as a suggestion for enhancement or does netbeans use any type of voting system to vote for features / bugs?


Thanks J

Andrew

[Russ Petruzzelli]

I would vote for this feature too. One of the hurdles on profiling is having to identify the root methods --something that for my project would require me to be expert in about 6 different software products.

This suggestion would open the door wide for me on my ability to quickly profile my system under test.

Russ

[Replogle, Andrew]

I've made an enhancement request: http://www.netbeans.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=150457

Please feel free to add comments or ideas :)


-----Original Message-----
From: Russ Petruzzelli [mailto:address-removed]
Sent: Thu 10/16/2008 6:03 PM
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Subject: Re: [profiler] Enhancement Idea - HTTP / Socks Proxy for Web App Profiling.

I would vote for this feature too. One of the hurdles on profiling is
having to identify the root methods --something that for my project
would require me to be expert in about 6 different software products.

This suggestion would open the door wide for me on my ability to quickly
profile my system under test.

Russ




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[Jess Holle]

On a related note, see enhancement issue #113276.

Setting root methods and getting full instrumentation is too much in a large system. Starting with rough profiling and moving to full instrumentation where the rough profiling indicates it worthwhile would be very helpful.

Russ Petruzzelli wrote:

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