How to read heap dump file which is created by jconsole?

I performed a heap dump manually by invoking the com.sun.management.HotSpotDiagnostic MXBean's dumpHeap operation in jconsole. So I开发者_JAVA技巧 got a dump file.

My question: Can jconsole read the dump file? If not, which tool can read it? Thanks!

EDIT: Now I know jconsole doesn't provide read feature, I am wondering reason why jconsole only writes dump file without read feature. (This is not my question, I am just curoius about it)

I found an Eclipse plugin Memory Analyzer to read the dump file by myself. Other tools are still welcome.

You can use jvisualvm.exe which comes with JDK 1.5 and above. Its present in bin folder of JDK. This is a very good tool which can be used to profile even the running Java applications. You can even use JProfiler to read heap dump files. But this software is licensed.