What version of visualvm works with Java 6?

Question

I'm using Mac 10.9.1 and Java 1.6.45 . It is not an option for me to upgrade my Java version at this time. I want to use visualvm to analyze heap dumps, but the latest version on http://visualvm.java.net/download.html only works with Java 7 and above. What version of VisualVM will work with Java 6 and where can I find this mystical version?

Answer 1

VisualVM 1.3.6 works with JDK 6. You can download it from this page: http://visualvm.java.net/releases.html . You can also install JDK 7 next to JDK 6 and use VisualVM 1.3.7.

Answer 2

According to this Oracle site it should be a command-line tool built in to your JDK distribution. From here , it was first bundled in Java 6u7, so you should definitely have it.