Description Navid Mehregani 2006-05-23 12:09:40 EDT

Currently probekit only sends the generated classes for probes over the wire when probes are deployed dynamically.

This means that a probe author cannot just use an external class in their probes when they're applying their probe dynamically.  They have to use java reflection to discover the class and invoke any of its methods.  Then they have to manually copy the class file to the remote machine and include it under their CLASSPATH.  This adds unnecessary complication to the code.  Java reflection make the code more complicated and harder to follow.  Java reflection is also quite slow.

I propose a solution that will allow probe authors to specify which classes should be sent over the wire when deploying dyanmically.  Then the author can use the support classes as-is without the need for Java reflection.