We have decided to deprecate the developer mode a little bit. It is now used only by the eclipse plugin while recording from within eclipse.

The Chronon Recording Server is now the official way for Recording outside Eclipse.

The reasons for doing so are:

1. The developer mode config files were hard to create with the many configuration options.
   The server mode config file require only a 'name' value.
2. The process of creating the config, doing the recording, transferring the recording to the local machine to debug was too manual.
   This is exactly what the Recording Server was designed to eliminate.
3. Developer mode didnt support dynamic start/stop or support for long running programs.
   Turns out people who did want to record outside eclipse wanted exactly that. They wanted to skip the long initialization of their web servers and start recording after the web server had initialized and they wanted to record for long periods of time. This is exactly what the Recording Server was designed for.
4. No easy way to organize and view remote recordings.
   With the Recording Server you can easily view all the recordings for every java application on every machine.

While the Recording Server may require a bit of an initial setup due to the need to install the Controller process on each machine, even this takes less than a minute and needs to be done only once.  

Thus due to all the benefits described above we believe the Recording Server is the way to move forward for recording outside of Eclipse. It removes all the manual process which was previously required and replaces it with a nice, clean and easy to use GUI.