Offline profiling

JProfiler's offline profiling capability allows you to run profiling sessions from the command line without the need for starting JProfiler's GUI front end. Offline profiling makes sense if you want to
- perform profiling runs from a scripted environment (e.g. an ant build file)
- save snapshots on a regular basis for QA work
- profile server components on remote machines via slow network connections
Performing an offline profiling run for your application is analogous to remote profiling with special library parameters passed to the -Xrunjprofiler JVM argument:
- offline switch
  Passing offline as a library parameter enables offline profiling. In this case, a connection with JProfiler's GUI is not possible.
- session ID
  In order for JProfiler to set the correct profiling settings, a corresponding session has to be configured in JProfiler's GUI front end. The ID of that session has to passed as a library parameter: id=nnnn. Your settings in the profiling settings dialog are used for offline profiling. The session ID can be seen in the top right corner of the application settings dialog.
- config file location
  The config file that is read for extracting the session with the specified ID has to be passed via config={path to config.xml}. The config file is located in the .jprofiler directory in your user home directory (on Windows, the user home directory is typically c:\Documents and Settings\$USER).
A summary of all library parameters is available in the remote session invocation table.
If you profile on a machine where JProfiler is not installed, you will need to transfer the contents of the bin/{your platform} directory as well as the JAR file bin/agent.jar and the config file {User home directory}/.jprofiler3/config.xml.

Example:

A typical invocation for offline profiling will look like this:
```
          java -Xint "-Xrunjprofiler:offline,id=109,config=C:\Documents and Settings\bob\.jprofiler3\config.xml"
          "-Xbootclasspath/a:C:\Program Files\JProfiler\bin\agent.jar"
          -classpath myapp.jar com.mycorp.MyApp
        
```
Please study the remote session invocation table to generate the correct invocation for your JVM. Also, please don't forget that the platform-specific native library path has to be modified, just like for remote profiling.

To control CPU profiling, triggering of heap dumps and saving of snapshots during an offline profiling session, please use JProfiler's profiling API.