Posted by: Casey Marshall on Jun 24, 2009
Summer is here, which means it's time to cool off in the San Marcos river and escape the Texas heat. It's also time to download a new Eclipse -- Eclipse Galileo (3.5) released today. Phurnace Deliver builds on Eclipse technology, so I follow the latest developments in the community.
I want to highlight just a few of the features that have impressed me the most so far in Galileo, which has much general appeal for Java & web developers.
Eclipse Memory Analyzer
I've been using the Eclipse Memory Analyzer (MAT) for several months now, and it's helped me through some tricky memory leaks. MAT provides detailed memory usage reports and charts from a Java heap dump (created with jmap, for example). In the latest MAT release for Galileo, MAT has added stack frame information to the memory analysis -- you can more easily find where the leaks are, in addition to what's leaking. The new support for IBM JVM heap dumps could prove useful for diagnosing leaks, even in a live WebSphere instance. Once you get Galileo installed, here is a guide on getting started with the latest MAT, with some nice screenshots of the new stuff!
XML Tooling
If you muck around at all in large XML files (IBM WebSphere Portal snapshots come to mind), the new Web Tools Platform (WTP) release is reason enough to download Galileo. You can now test XPath queries directly on XML documents open in the editor and jump to the matching nodes. This has all sorts of potential for XSLT and custom XML parser development, but most importantly, it can be a powerful navigation tool. Read more in Eclipse Galileo: XML gets some love!
And More...
There are over 33 projects included in the Galileo release. For an overview of what else is included in Galileo, check out Eclipse Galileo - A Quick Glance on DZone and Eclipse Galileo Feature Top 10 List on EclipseSource.
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