The jhsdb tool is described on its Oracle JDK 9 Documentation Early Access page, "You use the jhsdb tool to attach to a Java process or to launch a postmortem debugger to analyze the content of a core-dump from a crashed Java Virtual Machine (JVM)." The tool comes with several "modes" and several of these modes correspond in name and function with individual command-line tools available in previous JDK distributions. The jhsdb tool not only provides a single tool that encompasses functionality of multiple other tools, but it also provides a single, consistent approach to applying these different functions. For example, the jhsdb command-line syntax for getting help for each of the "modes" is identical. http://marxsoftware.blogspot.hk/2017/06/jhsdb-jdk9.html https://docs.oracle.com/javase/9/tools/jhsdb.htm#JSWOR-GUID-0345CAEB-71CE-4D71-97FE-AA53A4AB028E