Tools
VisualVM is a visual tool integrating several commandline JDK tools and lightweight profiling capabilities. Designed for both production and development time use, it further enhances the capability of monitoring and performance analysis for the Java SE platform.
VirtualBox is a powerful x86 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use.
VMware Workstation makes it simple to create and run multiple virtual machines on your desktop or laptop computer. You can convert an existing physical PC into a VMware virtual machine, or create a new virtual machine from scratch. Each virtual machine represents a complete PC, including the processor, memory, network connections and peripheral ports.
Whether you're an IT Pro or a developer, you'll find Sysinternals utilities to help you manage, troubleshoot and diagnose your Windows systems and applications.
The Null-modem emulator (com0com) is a kernel-mode virtual serial port driver for Windows. You can create an unlimited number of virtual COM port pairs and use any pair to connect one COM port based application to another.
Wireshark is an award-winning network protocol analyzer developed by an international team of experts.
WinSCP is an open source free SFTP client and FTP client for Windows. Legacy SCP protocol is also supported.
PuTTY is a free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Win32 and Unix platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator.
MinGW, a contraction of 'Minimalist GNU for Windows', is a port of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), and GNU Binutils, for use in the development of native Microsoft Windows applications.
ATTENTION: You should definitely read this before installing MinGW / MSYS.
MSYS, a contraction of 'Minimal SYStem', is a Bourne Shell command line interpreter system [for Windows platforms].
MSYS requires MinGW to be installed.
ATTENTION: You should definitely read this before installing MinGW / MSYS.
Console is a Windows console window enhancement. Console features include: multiple tabs, text editor-like text selection, different background types, alpha and color-key transparency, configurable font, different window styles.
Microsoft Windows PowerShell command line shell and scripting language helps IT professionals achieve greater control and productivity.
Replacing Notepad or looking for a powerful text editor? UltraEdit is what you're looking for. Versatile and easy to use, UltraEdit is the ideal text, hex, XML, HTML, PHP, Java, Javascript, Perl, and programmer's editor.
Notepad++ is a free (as in 'free speech' and also as in 'free beer') source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages.
