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OC Systems Announces Hitchhiker for Eclipse; Free Eclipse
Plug-In Provides Testing, Debugging and Performance Analysis for C/C++
Applications
Hitchhiker brings the capabilities of the Eclipse Test
and Performance Tools Platform (TPTP) to C/C++
Fairfax, VA, June 27, 2005—OC Systems, Inc., provider of
state-of-the-art software tools and development environments, today
announced the release of Hitchhiker for Eclipse. Hitchhiker is an Eclipse
plug-in and runtime engine that provides tracing, profiling, memory leak
tracking and function coverage tools for C/C++ applications. Hitchhiker can
be used throughout the application development lifecycle, from development
to testing, deployment and production.
"As Eclipse has grown beyond being a Java IDE, it has become increasingly
important that testing, profiling, memory analysis, and coverage tools be
available for native code. Our Aprobe instrumentation technology allowed us
to quickly integrate these capabilities with Eclipse," said Oliver Cole,
president of OC Systems. "Hitchhiker is our first foray into the C/C++ space
within the Eclipse ecosystem. We look forward to receiving feedback and
developing future Eclipse-based products, particularly for C/C++."
Hitchhiker collects performance and control flow data by automatically
inserting machine code instrumentation into an application. Data collection
is configured using the Eclipse Workbench. The application can either be
launched manually on the target machine or from the Eclipse Workbench; in
either case Hitchhiker detects and instruments the target application.
Hitchhiker is non-intrusive; the application can be traced and profiled at
near full execution speed.
Collected data is sent back to the Eclipse Workbench and can be viewed in
real time using a variety of data visualization views or saved for later
analysis to:
- Identify objects and methods that consume the most time
- Identify memory-intensive classes
- Gauge program concurrency
- Locate memory leaks
- Browse every execution of a method as a function of time
- Access a wider view of execution behavior as a function of time
- Identify active threads
- Identify when threads are active
- Identify frequently called methods
- Identify different phases of program execution
- Study different method invocations
Hitchhiker was developed using OC Systems' patented Aprobe software
instrumentation technology. Aprobe is an agent-based monitoring system that
modifies the executable at runtime, while it is in memory. Commands are
inserted at the machine-code level and executed while the application is in
process. Aprobe can be used to develop custom, application-specific
instrumentation for applications written in Java, as well as C/C++.
Pricing and Availability
Hitchhiker is free and can be downloaded now from
http://www.ocsystems.com/eclipse.
Hitchhiker is currently available for Linux. It works on C/C++ applications
developed using the Eclipse C/C++ Development Toolkit (CDT) or any other
native code development environment.
About OC Systems
OC Systems, Inc. provides state-of-the-art software tools, development
environments, and services that maximize software quality and application
availability to companies that are developing and maintaining critical
systems. Customers include Lockheed Martin, IBM, Sun Microsystems, Northrop
Grumman, SAS, Sandia National Laboratories, Cognos, Intel, SAIC and the U.S.
Army. Founded in 1983, the employee-owned company is based in Fairfax,
Virginia. More information may be obtained at
http://www.ocsystems.com.
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Hitchhiker and Aprobe are trademarks of OC Systems, Inc. in
the United States and other countries.
All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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