Managing Classes 

Procedure

The bytecode-modified Java classes in the Performance Tracing → Runtime → Application tracing → Classes tab are marked with  or .

Since Java does not provide a suitable method for retrieving the definition of an already loaded class, the application tracing attempts to get it by assuming the usual behavior of the class loaders – requesting the slash-separated fully-qualified class name concatenated with .class from its class loader:

class c; String resourceName = c.getName().replace('.', '/') + ".class"; InputStream in = c.getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream(resourceName); // ... Read the stream fully

 

You can apply different actions to each class:

Class Actions

Action	Description
Browse as an object	Adds a java.lang.Class to the object browser.
View source	Attempts to retrieve the source of the class depending on the current settings.

 

See also:

Managing Objects