I am evaluating Devpartner for Java, Borland's Optimizeit, and Quest's
JProbe. Anyone want to chime in, especially strengths and weaknesses of
devPartner?
Stephen Kellett - 15 Mar 2004 11:56 GMT
>I am evaluating Devpartner for Java, Borland's Optimizeit, and Quest's
>JProbe. Anyone want to chime in, especially strengths and weaknesses
>of devPartner?
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Vladimir Kondratyev - 15 Mar 2004 19:48 GMT
> I am evaluating Devpartner for Java, Borland's Optimizeit, and Quest's
> JProbe. Anyone want to chime in, especially strengths and weaknesses of
> devPartner?
Take a look at YourKit Java Profiler (http://www.yourkit.com).
It's a greate piece of software. BTW, you will be
really surprised by the price.
Best regards,
Vladimir Kondratyev
Scott Ellsworth - 16 Mar 2004 19:50 GMT
> I am evaluating Devpartner for Java, Borland's Optimizeit, and Quest's
> JProbe. Anyone want to chime in, especially strengths and weaknesses of
> devPartner?
I helped beta some previous versions of DevPartner, and found it a
fairly good package. The biggest problem we had was platform
compatibility - we do our nightlies with ANt on a linux box, and
development on both Macintosh Powerbooks and PC laptops. DevPartner did
not work on the Mac machines, so several of our clients went with
OptimizeIt instead.
I found the code lint tool in DevPartner to be quite compelling.
Checking code against the Effective Java points was rather neat. I
suspect that an ant task and a Mac build might get them in the door at
one of my clients.
Of late, I have become fond of JProfiler. Cross platform, effective,
and pretty slick.
Scott
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