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Eclipse release heap back to system

I’m using Eclipse 3.6 with latest Sun Java 6 on Linux (64 bit) with a larger number of large projects. In some special circumstances (SVN updates for example) Eclipse needs up to 1 GB heap. But most of the time it only needs 350 MB. When I enable the heap status panel then I see this most of the time:

@override annotation in JDK 1.6

I’m using JDK1.6. When I implement an interface and in the implementing class, if I give @override before my function names, Eclipse throws an compilation error. i.e. below code is wrong according to Eclipse. If I remove @Override annotation, then the code compiles fine. Does it mean that JDK1.6 does no…

Bringing unit testing to an existing project

I’m working on an existing Java EE project with various maven modules that are developed in Eclipse, bundled together and deployed on JBoss using Java 1.6. I have the opportunity to prepare any framework and document how unit testing should be brought to the project. Can you offer any advice on… J…

JDI Thread Evaluations has encountered a problem

I’m running Eclipse for Java. I created a DOM version of an XML file. Now I want to change an attribute of an element in the file. I called a method that called a method in the class that controls the DOM, and I got a dialog box saying “JDI Thread Evaluations has encountered a problem. Exception p…

Eclipse debugging “source not found”

I just started using Eclipse so go easy on me ;). But when trying to debug a JUnit test case I get a dialog that states the the source is not found when I get to this line in the code in my test method: I know I should probably go and try and download the source from somewhere, but