how to profile application startup with visualvm
Are you setting up the profiling using the `-Xrunjdwp" command-line option? If so, that option has a "suspend" parameter for just this purpose:
True if the target VM is to be suspended immediately before the main class is loaded; false otherwise.
Example from my own config:
-Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,address=8000,server=y,suspend=nI use this with the YourKit profiler, but I think the principle is the same.
I found Startup Profiler helpful:
Startup Profiler plugin for VisualVM 1.3.6 enables instrumented profiling of local Java 5+ applications from their startup. It is also helpful when profiling short-running processes.