I am using Ubuntu 14.04 with Oracle JDK 8. I want to inspect performance of my application using VisualVM. I can inspect other applications like JDownloader but I can't inspect my own applications and Eclipse 4.3. Before I made fresh install of Ubuntu, I was using JDK 7 and I have no problem and using it without any configuration. It gives following log.
SEVERE [org.openide.util.RequestProcessor]: Error in RequestProcessor com.sun.tools.visualvm.core.ui.DataSourceWindowManager$1
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Unexpected composite type for ThreadInfo
at sun.management.ThreadInfoCompositeData.validateCompositeData(ThreadInfoCompositeData.java:372)
at sun.management.ThreadInfoCompositeData.getInstance(ThreadInfoCompositeData.java:68)
at java.lang.management.ThreadInfo.<init>(ThreadInfo.java:263)
at java.lang.management.ThreadInfo.from(ThreadInfo.java:794)
Caused: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:483)
at sun.reflect.misc.Trampoline.invoke(MethodUtil.java:71)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor9.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:483)
at sun.reflect.misc.MethodUtil.invoke(MethodUtil.java:275)
at com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver.DefaultMXBeanMappingFactory$CompositeBuilderViaFrom.fromCompositeData(DefaultMXBeanMappingFactory.java:1018)
Caused: java.io.InvalidObjectException: Failed to invoke from(CompositeData)
at com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver.DefaultMXBeanMappingFactory.invalidObjectException(DefaultMXBeanMappingFactory.java:1457)
at com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver.DefaultMXBeanMappingFactory$CompositeBuilderViaFrom.fromCompositeData(DefaultMXBeanMappingFactory.java:1021)
at com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver.DefaultMXBeanMappingFactory$CompositeMapping.fromNonNullOpenValue(DefaultMXBeanMappingFactory.java:919)
at com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver.DefaultMXBeanMappingFactory$NonNullMXBeanMapping.fromOpenValue(DefaultMXBeanMappingFactory.java:133)
at com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver.ConvertingMethod.fromOpenReturnValue(ConvertingMethod.java:131)
at com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver.MXBeanProxy.invoke(MXBeanProxy.java:168)
at javax.management.MBeanServerInvocationHandler.invoke(MBeanServerInvocationHandler.java:252)
Caused: java.lang.reflect.UndeclaredThrowableException
at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy8.getThreadInfo(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.tools.visualvm.jmx.impl.JmxSupport.isReadOnlyConnection(JmxSupport.java:95)
at com.sun.tools.visualvm.jmx.impl.JmxModelImpl.isTakeThreadDumpSupported(JmxModelImpl.java:311)
at com.sun.tools.visualvm.application.views.threads.ApplicationThreadsViewProvider.resolveThreads(ApplicationThreadsViewProvider.java:65)
at com.sun.tools.visualvm.application.views.threads.ApplicationThreadsViewProvider.supportsViewFor(ApplicationThreadsViewProvider.java:29)
at com.sun.tools.visualvm.application.views.threads.ApplicationThreadsViewProvider.supportsViewFor(ApplicationThreadsViewProvider.java:25)
at com.sun.tools.visualvm.core.ui.DataSourceViewsManager.getViews(DataSourceViewsManager.java:116)
at com.sun.tools.visualvm.core.ui.DataSourceWindowManager.openWindowAndAddView(DataSourceWindowManager.java:169)
at com.sun.tools.visualvm.core.ui.DataSourceWindowManager.access$000(DataSourceWindowManager.java:30)
at com.sun.tools.visualvm.core.ui.DataSourceWindowManager$1.run(DataSourceWindowManager.java:80)
at org.openide.util.RequestProcessor$Task.run(RequestProcessor.java:1393)
[catch] at org.openide.util.RequestProcessor$Processor.run(RequestProcessor.java:2005)
run eclipse and your application with jvm parameters -Duser.language=en -Duser.country=us ...
then you will be able profile with jvisualvm.
for eclise put this two lines in eclipse.ini
-Duser.language=en
-Duser.country=us
maybe your pre installed Ubuntu had languge settings as english and you was ok.