Month: November 2018

The Compound Effect

We all are looking for a quick way to earn money, lose weight, build relationships, get promotion in our job, or become successful in life. I have failed numerous times with my effort to achieve my goals. We all give up too quickly. Failing is not an issue if you failed after you have given your best. Most of the time we fail because we don’t try hard enough. We give up too soon.

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Taking Java heap dump programmatically

The following code snippet can be used to take heap dump of Java program programmatically.

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.lang.management.ManagementFactory;

import javax.management.MBeanServer;

import com.sun.management.HotSpotDiagnosticMXBean;

public abstract class HeapDumper {

    private static final HotSpotDiagnosticMXBean HOT_SPOT_DIAGNOSTIC_MX_BEAN = getHotspotDiagnosticMxBean();
    private static final String HOTSPOT_BEAN_NAME = "com.sun.management:type=HotSpotDiagnostic";

    private static HotSpotDiagnosticMXBean getHotspotDiagnosticMxBean() {
        MBeanServer server = ManagementFactory.getPlatformMBeanServer();
        try {
            return ManagementFactory.newPlatformMXBeanProxy(
                    server, HOTSPOT_BEAN_NAME, HotSpotDiagnosticMXBean.class);
        } catch (IOException error) {
            throw new RuntimeException("failed getting Hotspot Diagnostic MX bean", error);
        }
    }

    public static void createHeapDump(File file, boolean live) {
        try {
            HOT_SPOT_DIAGNOSTIC_MX_BEAN.dumpHeap(file.getAbsolutePath(), live);
        } catch (IOException e) {
            throw new RuntimeException(e);
        }
    }
}