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Bug 231027 - profiler fails to profile oc4j.jar: 'Error: Agent JAR loaded but agent failed to initialize'
Summary: profiler fails to profile oc4j.jar: 'Error: Agent JAR loaded but agent failed...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: profiler
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Base (show other bugs)
Version: 7.2
Hardware: All All
: P3 normal (vote)
Assignee: Tomas Hurka
URL:
Keywords: VISUALVM
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2013-06-10 11:41 UTC by Tomas Hurka
Modified: 2013-06-12 02:04 UTC (History)
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Description Tomas Hurka 2013-06-10 11:41:54 UTC 
Trying to profile oc4j.jar with profiler gives the following error dialog: 

Error 
Agent JAR loaded but agent failed to initiali... 
OK 

The behaviour is identical, regardless if the 'CPU' or the 'Memory' profiling.
Profiler prints out the following exception message on the shell window: 

% /data/jdk1.8.0/bin/jvisualvm 
Exception in thread "Attach Listener" 12/10/11 13:23:39 java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException 
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) 
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57) 
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) 
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:474) 
at sun.instrument.InstrumentationImpl.loadClassAndStartAgent(InstrumentationImpl.java:382) 
at sun.instrument.InstrumentationImpl.loadClassAndCallAgentmain(InstrumentationImpl.java:407) 
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException 
at org.netbeans.lib.profiler.server.ProfilerActivate15.getArchiveFile(ProfilerActivate15.java:40) 
at org.netbeans.lib.profiler.server.ProfilerActivate15.activate(ProfilerActivate15.java:61) 
at org.netbeans.lib.profiler.server.ProfilerActivate15.agentmain(ProfilerActivate15.java:26) 
... 6 more 
Agent failed to start!
Comment 1 Tomas Hurka 2013-06-10 12:03:31 UTC 
See also bugs reported against VisualVM: http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=8000752 and https://java.net/jira/browse/VISUALVM-545
Comment 2 Tomas Hurka 2013-06-11 13:04:35 UTC 
Fixed in profiler-main

changeset:   255536:dab860cc8e66
user:        Tomas Hurka <thurka@netbeans.org>
date:        Tue Jun 11 15:01:23 2013 +0200
summary:     bugfix #231027, ugly workaround for OC4J - try to use context class loader if system class loader did not work
Comment 3 Quality Engineering 2013-06-12 02:04:15 UTC 
Integrated into 'main-golden', will be available in build *201306112301* on http://bits.netbeans.org/dev/nightly/ (upload may still be in progress)
Changeset: http://hg.netbeans.org/main-golden/rev/dab860cc8e66
User: Tomas Hurka <thurka@netbeans.org>
Log: bugfix #231027, ugly workaround for OC4J - try to use context class loader if system class loader did not work