One of the "new and noteworthy" features of NetBeans 7.1 is the ability to compare two heap dumps.
Specifically, the easy-to-use feature allows one to quickly ascertain
the difference in number of each class's instances between two dump
files....
0 replies - 1002 views - 01/20/12 by Dustin Marx in Articles
After refusing much of any changes, especially the ugly TestDecorator
fixture, after TestNG showed up, JUnit went bonkers with a spasm of
matching features. Parameterized tests were in 3.8.1, but in 4.x, they
were redone with annotations. The results were...
0 replies - 2851 views - 01/16/12 by Rob Williams in Articles
Last year it was Indigo, this year it will be Juno, and now the Eclipse community is voting on a name for the Eclipse release for June 2013. All you need to do is go to the poll, log in, and vote for your favorite name. If you're familiar with Eclipse...
0 replies - 2183 views - 01/12/12 by James Sugrue in Articles
Perhaps the biggest news in all of Javadom this past week was the release of NetBeans 7.1.
1 replies - 1430 views - 01/09/12 by Dustin Marx in Articles
The Apache Abdera team is hard at work on Abdera2. Abdera2 has a bunch of new features, check out this email by James Snell to get a sample of whats new and improved. One of the new features is Activity Streams support.
1 replies - 2306 views - 12/19/11 by Chad Lung in Articles
When compared to NetBeans, I find that Eclipse is a lot slower,
particularly when doing enterprise development. To try and speed
Eclipse up, I’ve taken the JVM settings that NetBeans uses and applied
them to Eclipse. The result is a vast improvement in...
11 replies - 8734 views - 12/02/11 by David Salter in Articles
After having worked with Eclipse for over 5 years I’ve came to use
IntelliJ IDEA intensively on a J2EE project in three months and took
this as an opportunity to compare the two. You can’t really compare 5
years and 3 months but I still believe that it...
13 replies - 10867 views - 10/25/11 by Jakub Holý in Articles
This screencast shows how the AmazonElastic Beanstalk plugin for Eclipse allows developers to directly deploy their Java Web Applications from within
0 replies - 4235 views - 10/21/11 by Craig Dickson in Articles
The ever increasing popularity of Git seems to know no bounds, which is
not bad for something that’s named after a British English insult that’s
only slightly more venomous than “idiot”1. Being popular, there is an eclipse plug in available and this...
1 replies - 4693 views - 10/10/11 by Roger Hughes in Articles
f you want to create any of these projects listed below using Eclipse IDE,
2 replies - 5353 views - 09/20/11 by Singaram Subramanian in Articles
Although there is almost any kind of functionality available in
IntelliJIDEA, either as a base functionality or via plugins, there's
still a fraction of probability involved that you might want to do
something that goes beyond the power of the IDE. For such...
0 replies - 2644 views - 08/31/11 by Anton Arhipov in Articles
Each IDE generates its specific project/config/build files. Eclipse
generates .project and .classpath, and also the .settings directory.
IntelliJ IDEA has its .iml files. And it is always a question what to
do with these files in terms of source control...
9 replies - 3592 views - 08/24/11 by Bozhidar Bozhanov in Articles
In Eclipse, when you press Ctrl button and click on any
Class names, the IDE will take you to the source file for that class.
This is the normal behavior for the classes you have in your project.
But, in case you want the same behavior for Java’s core...
0 replies - 6264 views - 08/18/11 by Veera Sundar in Articles
What’s the average lifespan of a corporate software application? I’m
feeling too lazy to find a serious study, but a licked finger in the
air says that a quarter or so live out a decade.We all know that a
decade is a long time in IT, but one tends to...
0 replies - 1944 views - 07/22/11 by Andrew Spencer in Articles
The traditional debugger as we know it hasn't changed since the dawn
of programming; which is to say it has remained pretty much the same
since 1970s. Lets take a deeper look at some of its fundamental design
principals and whether they are still...
7 replies - 5084 views - 07/18/11 by Prashant Deva in Articles
