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Bug 290338 - Feature Request: Generate Heap Dumps from within Eclipse UI
Summary: Feature Request: Generate Heap Dumps from within Eclipse UI
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 229449
Alias: None
Product: MAT
Classification: Tools
Component: Core (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P3 enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Project Inbox CLA
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Depends on: 229449
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Reported: 2009-09-23 19:47 EDT by Mark Storer CLA
Modified: 2010-02-11 05:52 EST (History)
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Description Mark Storer CLA 2009-09-23 19:47:11 EDT 
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: 3.4.2

The summary pretty much says it all.

It would be nice to be able to (for example) right-click on a process in the debug perspective and click on "Analise Memory" to whip up a Memory Analysis from it right then and there.

I'm not at all experienced with plugin development in/for eclipse, so I don't know if this would be an enhancement within the debug perspective itself, or if MAT could insert something into other components menus.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
JConsole/jmap are fine, but IDEs are all about convenience/development speed.  If you can turn "5 clicks, type in a path, 2 clicks, browse-to-the-dump-file, click" into "click click", I for one would be a Happy Camper.

If you could automagically catch the output of -XX:HeapDumpOn* running in eclipse's debugger and open it, that'd be Quite Awesome as well.
Comment 1 Andrew Johnson CLA 2009-10-16 04:13:10 EDT 
This is similar to another request 229449. Should we attempt to merge them into one?
Comment 2 Mark Storer CLA 2009-10-16 12:32:42 EDT 
Fine with me.

--The guy who created this bug
Comment 3 Andrew Johnson CLA 2010-02-11 05:52:06 EST 
We'll track this under the existing memory dump button request. This is slightly different - working from the debug perspective rather than selecting running processes from within MAT.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 229449 ***