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Tip: Quickly Restart Eclipse

by Venu on July 6, 2007

There are times when you need to restart Eclipse (other than the obvious reasons) If you are running the IDE for days together, the IDE does become sluggish. A quick look at the memory occupied by Eclipse also is an indication to restart Eclipse If you install new plugins when the IDE is active/open, the new plugin functionality is not activated until you restart Eclipse. The normal way to restart is to close the IDE (saving the workspace) and again run Eclipse.exe. If you have a shortcut, it would definitely help you to start Eclipse quickly. However there is another easy way to restart Eclipse: File -> Switch Perspective -> Choose your Current Workspace eclispe1 If you use more ...

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