The Session Summary tab, of the Execution Statistics view, displays the summarized statistics for a profiling session such as the "Top 10 Cumulative time" methods table and "Highest 10 Total Size" instances table.
You can go to the source of a selected class or method in these tables using either the context menu or the corresponding toolbar button
.
Prerequisites:
The Session Summary view provides a number of controls to allow you to manipulate the information shown within the view:
This view is made of a table where the first column presents the list of items. Three display modes are available based on three object types:



The data displayed depends what object type is selected. The statistics available for each object are summarized in the table below.
| Column heading | Package statistics ![]() |
Class statistics ![]() |
Method statistics![]() |
|---|---|---|---|
|
The summed base time for the classes in the package | The summed base time for the methods in the class | The time spent executing a given method |
|
Available | Available | Available |
|
The summed base time for the classes in the package | The summed base time for the methods in the class | Not available |
|
The summed cumulative time for the classes in the package | The time spent executing the methods in the class | The time spent executing the given method. |
|
The summed cumulative time for the classes in the package | The time spent executing the methods in the class | Not available |
|
Not available | Accumulated by class | Count |
|
Accumulated by package | Accumulated by class | Not available |
|
Accumulated by package | Accumulated by class | Accumulated by method |
indicates new
occurrences since the last time the Refresh Views button
from the Profiling Monitor view was pressed.
There are different controls available that allow you to manipulate the columns displayed in this view.
button in the toolbar drop-down menu
in the toolbar.Other profiling views and source code views can be opened from the Session Summary view.
. The data within the Session Summary view can be exported to available report formats (for example, HTML or XML).
in the toolbar.
The New Report dialog appears, showing available report types.The Session Summary tab can be refreshed using the Refresh Views
button in the Profiling Monitor toolbar or right click popup menu. When the view is refreshed, changes are marked with delta icons:
indicates new
occurrences since the last time the Refresh Views button
was selected from the Profiling Monitor view.
Related concepts
Overview of the Java Profiler
Profiling resources
Related tasks
Profiling an application
Viewing invocations and callers of a method
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