Question:
How to install JavaSpider plug-in in the modern Eclipse?
If it is deprecated, than what superseded JavaSpider?
Context:
In “Contributing to Eclipse” Book by Eric Gamma and Kent Beck
the JavaSpider plug-in introduced in Chapter 3.3.
The purpose of the plug-in is to show current objects tree in VM with
some useful functions like change objects’ fields or call their methods.
http://www.javaspider.org is unavailable, but I’ve found the plug-in here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/javaspider/
However it seems that it is not supported for years. And JavaSpider plug-in
is unavailable in “Install New Software…” windows from Eclipse.
I’ve downloaded it from SourceForge, but it seems that sources are pretty old.
JavaSpider could be substituted by Eclipse debug tools.
As the working hypothesis I assume that JavaSpider was developed at time when it was lack of good debug tools.