JVM TI: How to Make a 'Plugin' for the Virtual Machine

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Covers the JVM Tool Interface (JVM TI) as the standard API for building tools — profilers, debuggers and diagnostic utilities — that interact with the JVM (including HotSpot). Explains when JVM TI is useful even for regular Java applications, reviews features added in Java 9 and 11, and walks through writing a custom tool. Presents practical C/C++ implementation issues, JVM-specific quirks and bugs, and concrete examples of how to diagnose and work around them.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 4:43What is JVM TI
3. 7:17Exception handling with agents
4. 13:01Exception bytecode analysis
5. 16:15JVM event logging
6. 24:09Stack trace troubleshooting
7. 32:06Dynamic agent attachment
8. 35:18Java module system issues
9. 39:25Allocation profiling
10. 43:24Summary and use cases
11. 44:27Q&A

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