Java Instrumentation API

Jiapi, Java Instrumentation API, is a high level instrumentation API that allows developers to modify bytecode of the classes loaded at runtime.

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Description

Packages

alt.jiapi	High level instrumentation API.
alt.jiapi.agent	Java-agent support with Jiapi.
alt.jiapi.event	Event model for Jiapi.
alt.jiapi.file	This package contains a low level representation of the Java class file format.
alt.jiapi.file.attribute
alt.jiapi.interceptor	Interceptors for Jiapi.
alt.jiapi.jazzpect
alt.jiapi.jazzpect.interceptor
alt.jiapi.reflect	Jiapi reflection package.
alt.jiapi.reflect.instruction	This package contains all the classes and interfaces which are directly involved with Instructions.
alt.jiapi.tool
alt.jiapi.util	Utilities to be used with Jiapi.

Jiapi, Java Instrumentation API, is a high level instrumentation API that allows developers to modify bytecode of the classes loaded at runtime.

Some scenarios that may take advantage of this feauture.

• Profiling tools
• Monitoring tools
• Performance measuring tools
• Code coverage tools
• Application and component containers
• Things, that would be nice-to-have, but complicates actual implementation too much

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