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RECON3 On-Line Demo

The RECON3 On-Line Demo tries to show you what the tracing tools can do without making you go through the normal stages mentioned in the Overview: instrumenting your target program's source, compiling and running it, and monitoring execution to produce a set of trace files.

Instead, we provide a target program that is already instrumented, compiled, running, and being monitored - an Apache web server.

When you click on the link below you will be taken to our Demo Web Site. As you browse the links provided there, different features of Apache will be used to show you different kinds of files, etc.

Since Apache has been instrumented using RECON3, trace files are produced as it executes. A special version of the RECON3 TraceGraph tool displays the traces so you can see what new Apache code is executed for each feature.

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How the Demo Works

We should point out that the TraceGraph in the Demo is a Java Applet and uses Swing and Remote Method Invocation. Since not all browsers have those features, when you click on the link below you may be prompted to download and install Sun's Java Browser Plug-In (about 5 MB). If you prefer not to touch your browser but have Java 1.4 or better installed on your computer, just refuse the download and follow the instuctions on the next page that explain how to run this Demo as a stand-alone Java application.

CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE DEMO

Acknowledgements

Our thanks to the Apache Software Foundation for providing this wonderful application to the world in source form so that we could build this demonstration. Just for the record please see the Apache Copyright Notice. Of course, Apache in no way endorses RECON3. This is just a demo!

Email suggestions or questions to:

Norman Wilde