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Wednesday August 06, 2008

New DTrace GUI + Chime Plugin article on NetBeans site
The ink had barely dried on my previous posting which included a reference to DTrace GUI features that are new in Sun Studio Express 7/08 , when Nasser Nouri, who created the DTrace GUI plugin in NetBeans, brought to my attention this newly published article on it at the NetBeans site.
The article describes how the DTrace GUI works, how to use D Scripts packaged in the DTrace Toolkit, how to download, install and run the Plugin.
A new feature added to the Plugin that gives it additional appeal is the inclusion of Chime, a graphical tool for visualizing DTrace aggregations. Users like it for its ability to display data as it is streaming in, but an interesting feature is the way it can be extended for new displays(yes, the article has a section on Adding New Chime Displays as well!).
There are also some nice screenshots there. You can download the DTrace GUI from the NetBeans Update Center.
Good work, Nasser!

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