visualvm not part of OpenJDK7?
debian, java, ubuntu, visualvm
Solution
Looking at Debian's own information on OpenJDK 7, we see that `visualvm` is indeed suggested but doesn't exist. If it is indeed a piece of software under the GPL (the 'net is rather frustrating on this point, but I might just be searching wrong, and I don't fancy downloading the whole lot just to research this point) then the reason for its absence is almost certainly prosaic: nobody's got around do doing the work to make it available as a Debian package.
Problem
Neither in Ubuntu nor in Debian the tool visualvm is part of the OpenJDK 7 package. It's part of the Oracle JDK 7 and seems to be GPL licensed. While in Ubuntu it can be installed with a separate package, such a package doesn't exist in Debian. Why isn't it part of the OpenJDK packages?