If you have a Java application that is consuming CPU when it isn't doing anything, how do you determine what it is doing?

Question

I am calling a vendor\'s Java API, and on some servers it appears that the JVM goes into a low priority polling loop after logging into the API (CPU at 100% usage). The sam

Answer 1

VisualVM should be the profiler from netbeans as standalone. I tried the TPTP for eclipse but visualVm seems as a much nicer option!