A quick one, you are a Java Developer and you may not still code towards JDK8 on your project but you would like your IDE or tools to make use of the all new stuff this new version of the jdk & jre brings. I assume you use the latest Eclipse version which currently is Kepler 4.3.2 . Step 1: Install JDK 8 for …
Read MoreAnother quick late night Eclipse test hack I guess. Well it is the Java application that I use the most, meaning at least 9-10 hours per day. In my case it is a long running instance, I try to garbage collect once in a while and in general I am pissed when I do have a crash or delays, since I am working on fairly large …
Read MoreBack in June, I tried the first release of Eclipse (4.2.x) aka Juno, on my MacOSX laptop. The underlying VM on my system was JDK6 at that point. Unfortunately, the results were terrible, I was not able to complete a single line of code with no lagging and freezing in the code editor. I created a question/topic on …
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