[jboss-as7-dev] Changed arguments…can we do better ? :P

[David M. Lloyd]

On 02/01/2012 09:54 AM, Andrew Dinn wrote:
> On 02/01/2012 03:29 PM, Max Rydahl Andersen wrote:
>>> Yes. If you don't add this at startup then the module loader will hide
>>> all the Byteman classes from all JBoss classloaders. This means that you
>>> cannot decide to install a Byteman agent after AS startup in order to
>>> debug/trace behaviour in a broken App Server. It just won't work (TM).
>>> That's going to give our support team (not to mention our developers who
>>> need to use Byteman for testing) a major headache.
>>
>> Yes, I know - same problem for those wanting to use jprofiler, yourkit, eclemma, and others.
>
> No, it's not actually the same at all. Very far from it.
>
> With jprofiler etc you know in advance that you want to profile your
> program run or whatever...[etc]

Profiler vendors have made a general move towards no longer needing this 
setting (JProfiler in particular does not require it anymore).

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- DML