[jboss-dev] Byteman Release 1.4.0 now available

Byteman 1.4.0 has been released and is now available at the project download page http://www.jboss.org/byteman/downloads.html or from the JBoss maven repository https://repository.jboss.org/nexus/index.html#nexus-search;metadata~group... The release contains various bug fixes plus some important new features: * access restrictions have been removed. injected rule code may now read and write non-public fields and invoke non-public methods * a new sample helper, class, JMXHelper, has been provided which employs a Dynamic MBean to display any JVM runtime or application stats that can be counted using injected rules * two sample rule sets have been provided which use JMXHelper to provide running statistics detailing: - a miscellany of JVM operations such as thread creates, file opens etc - invocations of the javax.transaction.Transaction API * a new script, bminstall.sh, is provided which allows the byteman agent to be installed into an already running Java program rather than needing to be configured on the java command line (n.b. the dynamic install feature is only available for JVMs which implement the server side of the com.sun.tools.attach.VirtualMachine API -- currently this is known to work for the Sun, OpenJDK and JRockit JDK6 releases). More details available soon from the project blog http://bytemanblog.blogspot.com/ Full details provided in the programmer's guide http://www.jboss.org/byteman/documentation regards, Andrew Dinn -----------