How to change the application name in VisualVM?

Question

How can i change the application name in VisualVM ? I have multiple applications that where started from my IDE, but it's hard to distinguish them, there name are equal and the only difference is the PID. So i want to give them meaningful names, but the menu-item "Rename.." is disabled. How can i rename the application ? It seems to me like rename is only possible on snapshots -> descripion of snapshots

Answer 1

Rename and Remove menu item are enabled only for snapshots not for applications.

If you want to change the name displayed for the application you can set if through a JVM command line arg when you launch your application :

-Dvisualvm.display.name=ApplicationName