How do I specify a Process Name?

[ekartzma]

When using JConsole or JPS, you can see all the PIDs of running JVMs on the local machine. Some show a "Name" and some don't. If I run a Java application I usually see the fully qualified main class name there. On the other hand, I always have a blank entry for the NetBeans IDE and another blank entry per NetBeans Platform application I run. There are others with blank entries too such as the JVM used by IE and Firefox to manage Applet VMs (though the applet vms themselves have a "Name").

I use JConsole in my development a lot and would like to make my NetBeans Platform applications provide a "Name" (automatically or otherwise) rather than showing up as a blank entry.

Does anyone know why some JVMs including the NetBeans created ones show up empty and how I can change that behavior?

[Tomas Hurka]

On 28 May 2010, at 02:15, ekartzma wrote:

[ekartzma]

Thanks for that. I gave VisualVM a try and it does indeed do a better job at naming the processes (there is only 1 labelled <Unknown Application>). I added the Visual-VM-MBeans plugin and got "The Plugin Installer found problem timeout of loading" for all Plugins I tried to install. However, it did show up as installed but disabled. A restart of the application seems to have fixed it and now I can see our MBeans through VisualVM.

All JVMs built on the NetBeans Platform show up in VisualVM as "NetBeans Platform application". Is there a way to customize that name? Perhaps a command-line parameter?

[Tomas Hurka]

Hi,

On 28 May 2010, at 17:00, ekartzma wrote:

[william12]

I am also facing this issue but i got the idea from Google about this.Now i have different between them.Now its clear and good for all.