I have 2GB Ram and 2 GHz of processing power on my Windows XP.

I also have Tomcat and an Oracle development database and Oracle
client.

Should I attempt to put the latest Eclipse for J2EE as my IDE on this
workstation?
Will it freeze up or slow everything down?

On Nov 5, 2:58=A0pm, "tes...@hotmail.com" <tes...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I have 2GB Ram and 2 GHz of processing power on my Windows XP.
>
> I also have Tomcat and an Oracle development database and Oracle
> client.
>
> Should I attempt to put the latest Eclipse for J2EE as my IDE on this
> workstation?

Sure.

> Will it freeze up or slow everything down?

I run IDEs on Windows XP and on Linux with about the same processor
speed as yours, but only 1 GB RAM.  I tend to prefer NetBeans, but I
do it with Eclipse (and its offspring) also.  It's not the fastest
configuration, but it works all right.

If you get a second machine, move the database to it.  Databases tune
very differently from other applications.  If you have a dedicated
database server you can do more to enhance the DBMS performance than
if it has to share with other apps.

In a development environment performance is rarely the primary issue.

--
Lew

On Nov 5, 3:15=A0pm, Lew <l...@lewscanon.com> wrote:
> On Nov 5, 2:58=A0pm, "tes...@hotmail.com" <tes...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I have 2GB Ram and 2 GHz of processing power on my Windows XP.
>
> > I also have Tomcat and an Oracle development database and Oracle
> > client.
>
> > Should I attempt to put the latest Eclipse for J2EE as my IDE on this
> > workstation?
>
> Sure.
>
> > Will it freeze up or slow everything down?
>
> I run IDEs on Windows XP and on Linux with about the same processor
> speed as yours, but only 1 GB RAM. =A0I tend to prefer NetBeans, but I
> do it with Eclipse (and its offspring) also. =A0It's not the fastest
> configuration, but it works all right.
>
> If you get a second machine, move the database to it. =A0Databases tune
> very differently from other applications. =A0If you have a dedicated
> database server you can do more to enhance the DBMS performance than
> if it has to share with other apps.
>
> In a development environment performance is rarely the primary issue.
>
> --
> Lew

Thanks

teser3@hotmail.com wrote:
> I have 2GB Ram and 2 GHz of processing power on my Windows XP.
> 
> I also have Tomcat and an Oracle development database and Oracle
> client.
> 
> Should I attempt to put the latest Eclipse for J2EE as my IDE on this
> workstation?
> Will it freeze up or slow everything down?

You can install it.

It will only use resources when actually used.

Running Eclipse + Tomcat + Oracle (XE I presume) on a
development box should be OK.

Arne

On 2008-11-05, teser3@hotmail.com <teser3@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I have 2GB Ram and 2 GHz of processing power on my Windows XP.
>
> I also have Tomcat and an Oracle development database and Oracle
> client.
>
> Should I attempt to put the latest Eclipse for J2EE as my IDE on this
> workstation?
> Will it freeze up or slow everything down?

I ran Eclipse successfully on my previous laptop with a 2GHz Celeron and only
640MB of RAM. You should have no problems with your setup.

-- 
Steve Sobol, Victorville, California, USA
It's all fun and games until someone starts a bonfire in the living room.

teser3@hotmail.com wrote :
> I have 2GB Ram and 2 GHz of processing power on my Windows XP.
>
> I also have Tomcat and an Oracle development database and Oracle
> client.
>
> Should I attempt to put the latest Eclipse for J2EE as my IDE on this
> workstation?
> Will it freeze up or slow everything down?

I am using a single core 2GHz with 2GBytes of ram. Usualy running 
config:
- Eclipse - given 768M ram
- MS SQL
- Visual Studio to access the DB
- Tomcat - given 768M ram

Performance is fine. If anything I want to get more ram as I sometimes 
go over 2.5G used.

-- 
Wojtek :-)

Steve Sobol wrote:
> On 2008-11-05, teser3@hotmail.com <teser3@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> I have 2GB Ram and 2 GHz of processing power on my Windows XP.
>>
>> I also have Tomcat and an Oracle development database and Oracle
>> client.
>>
>> Should I attempt to put the latest Eclipse for J2EE as my IDE on this
>> workstation?
>> Will it freeze up or slow everything down?
> 
> I ran Eclipse successfully on my previous laptop with a 2GHz Celeron and only
> 640MB of RAM. You should have no problems with your setup.

Tomcat and Oracle may require a few KB ...

Arne