How to connect JProfiler to an application running on localhost?

Question

I have an application running on my localhost and I want to profile the application to see how can I enhance the performance of the application. I am doing the setup steps a

Answer 1

I know that this is an old thread. Also I am not sure wether the problem described here is the same than the one that I mean.

A colleage of mine had a very similar problem: he could not see any local running JVM using the "Quick Attach" feature on Windows. Trying to add the jvm agent parameter or to reinstall JProfiler also didn't help.

The solution was to delete a folder called %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Temp\hsperfdata_username after stopping all java processes. Probably something related to the permissions of this folder was messed up.