boakes.org

The geek in me loves this. It is a java bytecode viewer plugin for eclipse.

For the uninitiated this means it lets you look at the low level code which is generated when a .java file is compiled. If you’ve ever read Bill Venners book Inside the JVM, you’re probably going to like this. For the serious developer this plugin is a huge step in the right direction, providing a very useful new aspect on the code.

The diff capability is really cool, and I’d love to see it extended so it’s capable of diffing the bytecodes from different compilers without having to manually generate the class files (i.e. i prefer to use jikes for releases and would like to be able to select xyz.java and compare output from Jikes vs the Sun JDK).