Profiler is a great piece of software that I have found very useful.
But defining a new root method is quite cumbersome.

According to UI, "the method signature must be in VM format".
(1) one average user does not know by heart the VM format and then, should look at the java.sun.com web site to learn 
about it precisely *because* the help NetBeans provides does *not* give the VM format. Time is lost for a stupid task: 
looking for the precise description of such VM format.
The help system should give, at least the VM format, and may be more, like few examples of root method definition.
(2) I would be more happy if NetBeans could also accept the method signature, not in VM format, but in Java format like
<return type> <method name>(<argument-type>)
or
<return type> (<argument-type>)
(3) it looks like the new root method definition panel is accepting '*' token as method name and/or method VM 
signature. This very useful possibility I have used (due to (1) and (2)) is not mentionned into this panel and into 
the help system. I would be glad if this possibility could be listed both into the lowest section of this panel and 
into the help system.

Thanks.

PS : The pbs, here, are not that hard technically, but very irritating, so I use P2 priority.