Required 3rd party libraries

HSQLDB

Currently all engines provided by default with Stopwatch use HSQL database for persisting collected data.

Log4J

Stopwatch uses Log4j logging library.

There are 2 JAR files provided in Stopwatch distribution:

• stopwatch-version.jar - contains only Stopwatch files. All libraries listed above need to be on the classpath.
• stopwatch-version-with-deps.jar - contains Stopwatch files plus all dependencies.

Basic usage

As mentioned on QuickStart page Stopwatch is very simple to use. Here is very basic example:

        Stopwatch.setActive(true);                      
        long id = Stopwatch.start("my group", "my label");
                // some code to be measured
        Stopwatch.stop(id);
        Report report = Stopwatch.getSingleReport("my group", "my label");
        System.out.print(report);

Skipping measurements

Sometimes there is a need to skip some measurements. For example one may not want to measure situations where an exception is thrown. Here is simple example of how to generete different reports for even and odd iterations of the loop:

        Stopwatch.setActive(true);
        for (int count = 0; count < 21; count++) { 
                long odd_id = Stopwatch.start("my group", "odd");
                long even_id = Stopwatch.start("my group", "even");
                
                        // ..... 
                                        
                if (count % 2 == 0) {
                        Stopwatch.skip(odd_id)
                        Stopwatch.stop(even_id);
                } else {
                        Stopwatch.skip(even_id)
                        Stopwatch.stop(odd_id);
                }
        }
        Report[] reports = Stopwatch.getGroupReports("my group");
        System.out.print(reports[0] + "\n" + reports[1]);

Load reports

As of version 0.3 there are new methods providing load reports. Load report is one that says how many instances of given measured code were running at given time interval. For example to see how many times measured code in group "g" labeled "l" was executed per minute in last 30 minutes, one could use:

        long[] load = Stopwatch.getLoad("g", "l", Calendar.MINUTE, 30);

In this case load[0] will contain the number of code instances running 30 minutes ago and load[29] number of code instances running in the last minute.