Using JPDA to dump the state of a running VM.

["Kevin A. Burton - burtonator" <bu...@openprivacy.org>]

OK.

I create this project in the past

http://javacore.sourceforge.net/

but never added JPDA support because I didn't really have a JVM to play with.
JPDA in JDK 1.2.2 sucked but in 1.4 it is pretty solid.

It would be nice to have a project that could:

- connect to a running VM over IP

- suspend it dump the current state including threads, locals, source (if
available), etc.

- save the output to an XML file for later debugging.

This could be a win for Apache because it could enable us to accept 'core dumps'
from running server VMs so that we could debug them outside of their original
environment.

Thoughts?

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