This document describes the VisualVM SVN layout and short instructions on how to build VisualVM trunk.

There are two suites:

• visualvm: which defines the core tool, and
• plugins: which contains the plugins available in the VisualVM Plugin Center.

The layout in SVN is:

• trunk
  • www       <--- web pages
  • visualvm  <--- core tool suite
  • plugins    <--- for plugin center (jconsole, mbeans, glassfish)

To build the visualvm core tool you need the NetBeans 8.0 platform and profiler binaries available here. These binaries must be extracted into the trunk/visualvm directory. You can use ant run or ant build-zip to build or run VisualVM.

To build the plugins suite, use ant build or ant run. This will automatically build the zip distribution of the visualvm core tool into trunk/visualvm/dist/visualvm.zip and extract it into the trunk/plugins/visualvm directory. After that the build of the plugins suite continues to build each of the individual plugins.