Write once, debug/test everywhere is a variant on Java's write once, run anywhere claim, and it defines the Java Platform Debugger Architecture (JPDA). The JPDA is a client/server system built ...

In this post, I look at how javap might be used to determine what level of debugging a particular Java class was compiled with. The Sun/Oracle javac implementation provides the -g option to ...

3 Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ClassCastException:.... To understand why, simply examine the code, starting from the top: Debugging is one of the best ways to fully absorb programming ...

Microsoft updated the open source Java debugger for Visual Studio Code, adding support for Java 9 among other improvements. The Java debugger -- an extension in the VS Code Marketplace -- was ...

Microsoft continues to improve its Java debugger for the Visual Studio Code editor, issuing the fifth update in just the past three months. The company on Monday announced version 0.5.0 of the ...