title: Can VisualVM be used for profiling Maven Projects? If yes then how?
body: <p>I want to profile a Maven project using JVisualVM. In eclipse in the run configurations there is nothing for running the maven build in VisualVm. Next I tried running the VisualVM application and profiling the projects, the jar files that get created when I do mvn -install were my choice of input. However, even those don't really work.</p>
  
  <p>Is there a way to generate a FUNCTIONAL profile of a maven project. I dont want to know the CPU usage and stuff, rather I am interested in the execution flow of the project i.e how the methods are being called and executed and when/where are they interacting (basically TRACE of the program).</p>
  
  <p>If there are some other tools also please feel free to suggest.</p>