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

There are two suites:

The layout in CVS is:

To build the visualvm core tool you need the NetBeans platform and profiler binaries available here. These binaries must be extracted into the visualvm/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 visualvm/visualvm/dist/visualvm.zip and extract it into the visualvm/plugins/visualvm directory. After that the build of the plugins suite continues to build each of the individual plugins.