Alan recently blogged about
heap dumps are back
and Sundar blogged about
OQL.
These all use the old and historic
HPROF
binary heap dump format as the "heap dump snapshot", which is essentially a complete dump of all the objects in the Java heap at a given time.
If you are familiar with core dumps, and the Solaris utility gcore,
you'll understand what we are trying to do here, at least in...