Running a project with probes

After you have applied your probes to a project's class files and jar files, run the project to collect data.

To collect data:

If you applied your probes using Probekit > Instrument from the workbench, run your project exactly the way you would run it without probes. The action of applying the probes copied all necessary files into their correct locations. As the program runs, the classes that you instrumented will run with the probe logic specified in the probe definition.
If you applied your probes from the command line, you need to set up your target environment so that the class files instrumented by ProbeInstrumenter can access the probe classes that were generated when you compiled the probe.
For example, in some cases you may have to make sure that your project's runtime CLASSPATH environment variable includes the folder that contains the probe's generated class files. To add the folder, in the Classpath page of the Run or Debug window, add the probe project to the classpath.

Then run your project exactly the way you would run it without probes. As the program runs, the classes that you instrumented will run with the probe logic specified in the probe definition.

Note: For some types of target programs (including Eclipse itself), because of custom class loaders, the generated class files must be in a folder that is in the boot classpath instead of the classpath.