372 WebSphere Application Server V8.5 Concepts, Planning, and Design Guide
Every developer is responsible for performing basic code profiling. By using the profiling tools
in Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software V8.5, a developer can discover
methods that run poorly and find memory leaks or excessive creation of objects. Optionally,
developers can also use other tools to profile the applications they develop if Rational
Application Developer is not their development tool.
An alternative is IBM Monitoring and Diagnostic Tools for Java - Health Center. This open
source tool is delivered in the IBM Support Assistant Workbench, which is also available at no
additional cost. For more information about this tool, see the follo