title: Running Visual VM from eclipse
body: <p>I am trying to debug a java app using Visual VM in Eclipse kepler. I am executing the class having main method selecting Visual VM as launcher. I have configured Visual VM as per the instructions given in <a href="http://blog.idrsolutions.com/2013/05/setting-up-visualvm-in-under-5-minutes" rel="noreferrer">http://blog.idrsolutions.com/2013/05/setting-up-visualvm-in-under-5-minutes</a>. I am getting the following error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>An internal error occurred during: “Launching TestNew”.
  java.lang.NullPointerException
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>“TestNew” is the name of the class with main method I am trying to execute.</p>
  
  <p>please help.</p>