Pavan Kumar Gorakavi

Eclipse Session at Cloud Expo The garbage collector is primarily responsible as a collector to reclaim objects that are no longer used by the application. This is an automatic memory management invented by McCarthy. The garbage collector collects unreferenced objects, objects that are not reached by the reference chain. The starting point of the analysis is the Garbage Collection Root (GCR), which are objects that are reachable by the VM. Objects that are nonreachable are garbage collected, whereas objects that are reachable are sustained in memory. GCR is very useful in identifying memory leaks and the reference chain from an arbitrary object to GCR tells about the suspects. The Eclipse Memory Analyzer is a fast, feature-rich Java heap analyzer that helps to identify memory leakage. This project was initially released in December 2008 and is now part of the Galileo... (more)

Subclipse: A Subversion Client

Subversion is a stellar open source version control system initiated by CollabNet Inc. It is used to maintain source code.  There are many clients that support subversion, of which I want to introduce a simple eclipse plugin, Subclipse.  Subclipse (http://subversion.tigris.org/) is an Eclipse plugin that was released under the Eclipse Public License 1.0 open source license. Subclipse provides an easy and clear technique to perform subversion repository operations. This article illustrates different features supported by subclipse. Downloading and Installing Subclipse As Subclip... (more)