Sawmill is a powerful, hierarchical log analysis tool that runs on every major platform. It is particularly well suited to web server logs, but can process almost any log. The reports that Sawmill generates are hierarchical, attractive, and heavily cross-linked for easy navigation. Complete documentation is built directly into the program.

Here are just a few of the major features of Sawmill:

• Easy To Use
• Extensive Documentation
• Live Reports & Graphs
• Package of Powerful Analysis Tools
• Attractive Statistics
• Database Driven
• Advanced User Tracking by WebNibbler(tm)
• Very Fast
• Easy To Install
• Highly Configurable
• Works With a Variety of Platforms
• Processes Almost Any Log File

这几天在使用Tiles+Struts搭一个portal的框架,使用的过程中发现很多debug信息都输出到Tomcat的标准输出流上去了,每次都要查看那个文本的log实在是不方便,满在google上面搜了一下想看看是否有这中工具,没想到真的让我找到了,功能很强大,Sawmill~

今天在看TheServerSide.Com的时候发现了这么一条新闻:

本来也不是特别感兴趣,因为Visual Studio.Net和Eclipse已经都发展到极至了感觉,要再想超越这两个IDE实在是很困难,但是还是去X-develop的网站看了一下:

X-develop is a new multi-language cross-platform IDE from Omnicore. X-develop targets the .NET platform, the Mono platform and the Java platform. It offers advanced code analysis, project wide on-the-fly error checking, refactoring, smart editing, fast code navigation capabilities and other productivity-boosting features for C#, Java, J# and Visual Basic.NET. X-develop is available for Windows and Linux.

从介绍的幻灯片来看,这个IDE的功能还是很强大的,基本和高级的功能基本都涵盖了,但是我感觉还是没有强大到使开发者更换IDE的程度,因为其他的IDE也都有这些功能或者可以由插件得到.不过它的有一个feature倒是很令我有点吃惊,它的Java Debugger是可以step-back的,也即可以在调试的时候往回退运行程序!有点Word里面”撤销”的感觉,虽然没用过这个IDE,但是这点实在太巧妙了.Silde里面自称是industry-leading,一点也不为过.

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