Doesn't work on OS X about jvmtop

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Thank you very much for reporting this issue and for providing a possible fix.

I currently do not have the possibility to test against OS X so I have to rely 
on the community.

If you agree, I'll include your fix into the next release of jvmtop.

Original comment by [email protected] on 12 Sep 2013 at 12:53

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Sounds good to me!  I tested and am using the updated .sh on my Mac.   Pretty 
neat tool btw.

Original comment by [email protected] on 13 Sep 2013 at 2:40

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Additionally to this, JAVA_HOME detection in OS X is done with java_home.
See 
http://www.mkyong.com/java/how-to-set-java_home-environment-variable-on-mac-os-x
/ for example.

I've added similar changes to the JAVA_HOME detection in the jvm_top shell 
script and it fixes it on my OS 10.9 Mavericks Mac.

if [ -z "$JAVA_HOME" ] ; then
        if [ `uname` == 'Darwin' ] ; then
                JAVA_HOME=$(/usr/libexec/java_home)
        else
                JAVA_HOME=`readlink -f \`which java 2>/dev/null\` 2>/dev/null | \
                        sed 's/\/bin\/java//'`
        fi
fi

Original comment by [email protected] on 13 Nov 2013 at 4:45

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Just to add, i'm using latest homebrew version:

$ brew info jvmtop
jvmtop: stable 0.8.0
https://code.google.com/p/jvmtop/
/usr/local/Cellar/jvmtop/0.8.0 (5 files, 116K) *
  Built from source
From: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/commits/master/Library/Formula/jvmtop.rb

Original comment by [email protected] on 13 Nov 2013 at 4:47

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Mark, thanks for the update!

Two questions:

1. Do you have a clue why 
                JAVA_HOME=`readlink -f \`which java 2>/dev/null\` 2>/dev/null | \
                        sed 's/\/bin\/java//'

does not work on your OS X?
- According to comment #2, it works on at least one mac system
- even if the environment variable is named java_home, it should work 
nevertheless, because JAVA_HOME is set using the readlink autodection (see 
above) and only read afterwards

2. Regarding your suggestion: Will the path /usr/libexec/java_home work on 
every OX X system / JDK installation? If not - how should a safe OS X 
autodection of this path look like?

Original comment by [email protected] on 13 Nov 2013 at 7:44

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Maybe it's a different OS X version - for me, on Mavericks, the $JAVA_HOME 
should always be /Library/Java/Home. So by adding:

if [ `uname` = Darwin ]; then
    JAVA_HOME=/Library/Java/Home
fi

to the beginning of the shell script should always work.

Original comment by xuhdev on 30 Nov 2013 at 7:46

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Plus, skip the tools.jar code for OS X.

Original comment by xuhdev on 30 Nov 2013 at 7:48

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@xuhdev: 
Thanks for the information.
I am wondering that tools.jar does not exist for OS X. jvmtop needs some 
classes within this jar - are they part of another jar?

Original comment by [email protected] on 19 Aug 2014 at 8:25

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