What advantages have a commercial Java profiler over the free ones, e.g. the one in Netbeans?

Question

Occasionally I have to do some profiling work on Java code, and I would like to know why I should have my boss investigate in a commercial profiler as opposed to just use th

Answer 1

I would say that, ready to use and more performance statistics. I was assigned a profiling job last year when I was interning at a multinational. I used the InfraRED profiler which uses Java aspect oriented API (works with both Aspectwerkz and AspectJ). But I had to extend the profiler to get what my manager wanted. Also, the performance statistics given by the profiler was limited.

But before selecting the profiler I researched a few other opensource profilers. Some of them were trivial and didnt suit what we wanted.

I would also add that, some of them just doesnt work. For example, if we want to collect performance statistics of a web application, all the profilers doesnt support those statistics required for us.