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Bug ID: 6174397 Revisit jconsole UI design to make it more user-friendly
6174397 : Revisit jconsole UI design to make it more user-friendly

Details
Type:
Enhancement
Submit Date:
2004-10-05
Status:
Resolved
Updated Date:
2012-10-09
Project Name:
JDK
Resolved Date:
2006-03-06
Component:
tools
OS:
generic
Sub-Component:
jconsole
CPU:
generic
Priority:
P3
Resolution:
Fixed
Affected Versions:
5.0u1
Fixed Versions:
6

Related Reports
Relates:
JDK-6245902 - New Connection Dialog
Relates:
JDK-6253724 - A new overview tab showing usage graphs of multiple critical resources in a single tab
Relates:
JDK-6253467 - Provide a user-friendly way to enable/disable verbose:gc tracing
Relates:
JDK-6247572 - Use system look-and-feel instead of Java look-and-feel

Sub Tasks

Description
jconsole is a JDK demo GUI in JDK1.5.
Need to revisit the UI design for a better user interface.
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The java.lang.management API has other information available but only accessible through the MBeans tab.  There is no MBean specific tab to monitor or control some attributes.  For example,
  1. set -verbose:gc and -verbose:class on/off
  2. perform deadlock detection
  3. change log level (see 5052763)
  4. turn on/off thread monitor contention monitoring

We should consider to support these in our redesign.  The above can all be done in the MBeans tab.

###@###.### 10/14/04 19:16 GMT
###@###.### 10/14/04 19:16 GMT

Comments
EVALUATION

This CR is an umbrella RFE for Mustang planning purpose.  We added a new connection dialog, the new overview tab, deadlock detection UI in Mustang and also switched to use system LAF. It would be a contining effort to improve the usability of jconsole in the future release.
2006-03-06 
EVALUATION

Consider for Mustang.
###@###.### 10/5/04 17:48 GMT

A heuristic evaluation was conducted on Feb 2-3, 2005 to identify and priorize the JConsole's UI issues.  About 130 UI issues were identified.  The following tasks were performed in the heuristic evaluation:

1. Connecting to a running JVM
2. Find out the process CPU time
3. Set up an alarm for monitoring memory usage against a specific threshold
4. Invoke an operation of a specific MBean
5. Set the log level of a specific logger
6. Get the thread dump of a specific thread
7. Check if any threads are in deadlock, and, if so, why

New RFEs will be submitted to address UI issues in Mustang to make jconsole more user-friendly.  This CR is an umbrella for the Mustang jconsole feature.
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2004-10-05


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