During the live session the following tools were utilized:

Jps: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/tooldocs/share/jps.html

Jstat: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/tooldocs/share/jstat.html

Jmap: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/tooldocs/share/jmap.html

VisaulVM: https://visualvm.dev.java.net/

Memory Analysis Tool (eclipse) : http://www.eclipse.org/mat/

TDA (Thread Dump Analyzer) : http://www.ohloh.net/p/tda

AB (Apache benchmark) http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/programs/ab.html

AB for windows (called XAMPP Lite):  http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html#646

A Leaking Class Loader demo :  http://dev.eclipse.org/blogs/memoryanalyzer/2008/05/17/the-unknown-gener...

PermGen space presentation: http://mediacast.sun.com/users/Frank.Kieviet/media/JavaOne07-BOF9982-Per...