SessionConsole

The Session Console is an AWT/Swing application used to inspect the TopLink cache and gather statistics about queries etc. Very useful for debugging and diagnosing performance problems.

The Session Console is started like so:

import oracle.toplink.tools.sessionconsole.SessionConsole;

boolean shouldCallSystemExit = false;
SessionConsole.browseSession(session, shouldCallSystemExit);

Being a Swing app, it doesn't integrate very well into a J2EE environment. Eg. you need to make sure your DISPLAY is set right on the server, X11 is running on the client, fonts are available, etc. It is rarely possible to enable it in production.

In more recent versions of TopLink, the Session Console was complemented (replaced?) by the TopLinkWebClient that doesn't suffer from these constraints (but has a whole set of its own).