"Failed to load Premain-Class manifest attribute" while trying to get the size of an object using java agent

Question

When i try to run a java program (java -javaagent:size.jar ObjectSizeTest) i get the following error:

Failed to load Premain-Class manifest attribute from D:\workspace\ObjectSizeTest\size.jar
Error occurred during initialization of VM
agent library failed to init: instrument

Here is ObjectSizeTest's code:

public class ObjectSizeTest {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String s = new String("sai");
        System.out.println(ObjectSizeFetcher.getObjectSize(s));
    }
}

MANIFEST.MF (for size.jar):

Manifest-Version: 1.0
Created-By: 1.5.0_18 (Sun Microsystems Inc.)

Premain-Class: ObjectSizeFetcher

and here is ObjectSizeFetcher's code:

import java.lang.instrument.Instrumentation;

public class ObjectSizeFetcher {
    private static Instrumentation instrumentation;

    public static void premain(String args, Instrumentation inst) {
        instrumentation = inst;
    }

    public static long getObjectSize(Object o) {
        return instrumentation.getObjectSize(o);
    }
}

Answer 1

Make sure you have give full java path of the class containing the pre-main method. for example like this org.eclipse.anotherpckg.ObjectSizeFetcher. Secondly there must be a space before the name and carriage return at the end. for example

Manifest-Version: 1.0
Created-By: 1.5.0_18 (Sun Microsystems Inc.)
Premain-Class: org.eclipse.package.ObjectSizeFetcher

The last line is due to carriage return.