Profiler Integration

I've run the profiler plugin with jmemprof support, but it has some disadvantages:

• Doesn't have timings support
• Doesn't run on j2se 6+
• The profiler haven't been updated since year 2005
• SC starts working very slowly with it, about 5 times slower than usual.

But I found another profiler that supports timings and is more agile than other profilers - JIP, you can find information how the profiler is build in the article "Build your own profiling tool" by the project's author Andrew Wilcox.

I tried JIP with SC and got the next results:

Pluses:

• Has timings support
• Runs on j2se 5+, the profiler needs the version 5 too hook the classloader.
• SC is working almost as fast as usually.
• It outputs the results in txt and xml formats
• Has GUI for the results

Minuses:

• It doesn't support memory analyzing
• The results can be reprsented in GUI only by using the xml file with the results as an input.
• You need to siwtch off and on the profiler to update the results (may be there is any other possibility)
• The updated results don't contain previous ones after profiler stop/start issues (so called updates)

Next steps:

• Now the profiler gives mostly the timings of OSGI framework, I'll need SC ones.
• Try to get bundle separated results by package filtering.