This is an experimental project looking at using python and a jvmti extention to create a jvmti agent. This agent should be able to provide basic jvmti interactions from a python console AND be able to produce a dump that can be read elsewhere by the org.apache.kato.jvmti project To build and run: Dependencies python 2,6 Sun Java 6 SDK gcc Steps: 1 - Update setup.py to point to your Java sdk include directories 2 - run build.sh from the PyJVMTI directory to compile and build the java and c code. 3 - run the run.sh script to launch and pause a JVM with the agent attached. 4 - Initiate a dump ( ctl-\ on linux) and you should drop into a python interactive shell 5 - try the following... save()