Feedback on trying jboss-profiler-2.0.Beta2.tar.gz

[anders.norgaard]

1) The wikipage http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/JBossProfiler - is outdated. Should it be updated with info about the new 2.0 profiler? (I can help)

2) On http://www.jboss.org/jbossprofiler/ there are two links under Download marked "2.0 Beta 2". They both point at http://www.jboss.org/downloading/?projectId=jbossprofiler&url=/jbossprofiler/downloads/jboss-profiler-2.0.Beta2.tar.gz This is a bit confusing.

When reading the readme:

3) I think why is there not an ant-task to "deploy" ie. copy jar-files and property file to the right directories.

4) Why is there no description where to put the dependencies (eg. javassist.jar)

5) Of the listed dependencies only javassist.jar needed to be added to JBOSS_HOME/lib to start the server.

6) anders@anders-desktop:~/opt/jboss/jboss-profiler-2.0.beta2$ java -jar jboss-profiler-client.jar startProfiler

gives no output, and

anders@anders-desktop:/opt/jboss/jboss-4.2.3.GA/bin$ ./twiddle.sh invoke 'org.jboss.profiler:service=Profiler' startProfiler
'null'

outputs 'null'

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How can I help improve the documentation and usability of JBoss profiler?

Best
Anders

[jesper.pedersen]

The JBoss Profiler is a community driven project so we can use all the help we can get so make this project even better.

1) Feel free to update the documentation - but keep in mind that version 1 and 2 are very different so separate documentation areas would properly be best

2) Ok - we will change that

3) You mean some sort of "init" task that copy and modifies the files needed in the JBoss AS. If so because it hasn't been written yet, but great idea

4) There is a very short section in the README.txt file about this -- I guess that it could be expanded

5) It depends on the AS version you are using -- 5.0 includes javassist.jar already and 4.2 needs it in bin/

6) Well, there isn't any output from the start/stop profiler commands currently

Feel free to checkout our repository and create documentation. The documentation is very lacking currently, so any additions would be great. Feel free to send them to me or attach them in JIRA.

SGML based documentation would of course be best as we could generate different output from it (HTML, PDF) -- sort of what the AS project is doing http://www.jboss.org/file-access/default/members/jbossas/freezone/docs/Getting_Started_Guide/beta500/html-single/index.html

Looking forward to your contributions !