It's amazing the things that are right in front of you that you don't realise. VisualVM is probably the best example of this in the Java community. Everytime you go and update your JDK, you go straight to your IDE and capitalise on the new features provided. At least, that's what I thought I was doing. I first read about VisualVM in an article Geertjan Wielenga wrote back in February of last year
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