How to Read Java MEAP V03
Copyright
welcome
brief contents
Chapter 1: Starting to know your apps
1.1 How to easier understand your app
1.2 Typical scenarios for using investigation techniques
1.2.1 Demystifying the unexpected output
1.2.2 Learning certain technologies
1.2.3 Clarifying slowness
1.2.4 Understanding app crashes
1.3 What you will learn in this book
1.4 Summary
Chapter 2: Understanding your app’s logic through debugging techniques
2.1 When analyzing code is not enough…
2.2 Investigating code with a debugger
2.2.1 What is the execution stack trace, and how to use it?
2.2.2 Navigating code with the debugger
2.3 When using the debugger might not be enough?
2.4 Summary
Chapter 3: Finding problem root causes using advanced debugging techniques
3.1 Minimizing the investigation time with conditional breakpoints
3.2 Using breakpoints that don’t pause the execution
3.3 Dynamically altering the investigation scenario
3.4 Rewinding the investigation case
3.5 Summary
Chapter 4: Finding issues’ root causes in apps running in remote environments
4.1 What is remote debugging?
4.2 Investigating in remote environments
4.2.1 The scenario
4.2.2 Finding issues in remote environments
4.3 Summary
Chapter 5: Making the most of logs: Auditing app’s behavior
5.1 Investigating issues with logs
5.1.1 Using logs to identify exceptions
5.1.2 Using exception stack traces to identify who calls a method
5.1.3 Measuring time spent to execute a given instruction
5.1.4 Investigating issues in multithreaded architectures
5.2 Implementing logging
5.2.1 Persisting logs
5.2.2 Defining logging levels and using logging frameworks
5.2.3 Problems caused by logging and how to avoid them
5.3 Logs vs. remote debugging
5.4 Summary
Appendix A: Tools
A.1 IDEs
A.2 JDK
A.3 Profilers
A.4 Other tools
Appendix B: Opening a project