This tutorial presents one of the techniques that we use internally to profile and optimize MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench using JProbe. In fact, the use of JProbe was recently instrumental in diagnosing a memory leak that was present in MyEclipse 3.8.0, which allowed us to quickly address it in version 3.8.1. While this short tutorial only looks at using the JProbe Memory Debugger, the techniques used to configure and launch Eclipse are applicable across all the tools within the JProbe suite, including the freeware version of JProbe Profiler. So, if you're a plugin author that is interested in optimizing the performance of your plugin, or investigating performance problems in Eclipse itself, then this tutorial is for you.

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