VisualVM v1.2 Released

A new version of VisualVM, the tool that makes visualizing the performance of Java SE applications easier, has just been released. See the release notes for a list of the new features and enhancements including.

There's a good article by Jiri Sedlacek on one of the new features - the CPU and and Memory profiler plugin. It outlines how it can be used to find bottlenecks and memory leaks.

VisualVM v1.2 can be downloaded from the VisualVM website.