Chapter 2. Installation

Table of Contents

Requirements
Installation and Startup
Example Installations
Testing the Installation
Acknowledgements

This chapter explains how to install and then start Mike's Java Profiler. Readers familiar with versions of MJP prior to 00.08 should note that installation on Windows has been made much easier by the Windows Installer file distribution (*.msi). If your are installing on Windows it is recommended that you use this new installation method.

Requirements

This document assumes the following things are true:

  • You have downloaded a binary distribution of MJP. You can download a binary distribution from http://sourceforge.net/projects/mjp.
  • You have a Java Runtime Environment (or JDK) of version 1.4 or newer installed. The MJP GUI makes use of the 1.4 assertion feature and thus will not compile or run with older JREs. Note that the profiler agent and JNI interface will work a JRE 1.2 or newer. Thus it is possible to profile an application running in a 1.2 JVM, but a 1.4 JVM is required to analyze the resultant data.
  • Your operating system is Windows 2000/XP or Red Hat Linux 7.3. Other variants of Windows NT, Linux, and UNIX might also work, but MJP has not been tested on them. MJP will not work with Windows 95/98.