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Debugger


This is the home page for the Netbeans debugger, which can be used to present snapshots of the application state during execution. By placing breakpoints at key positions throughout your source code, the Debugger can halt at these points and display details of the current environment at that point in the source. You can effectively step through your code, monitoring execution as it occurs. You can also connect the debugger to an already-running process. See an overview of selected features for more detailes.

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The Netbeans Debugger is being developed by:
  • Martin Entlicher (Sun Microsystems), Developer
  • Daniel Prusa (Sun Microsystems), Developer
  • Roman Ondruska (Sun Microsystems), UI Designer
  • Filip Zamboj (Sun Microsystems), Quality Engineer
  • Vojtech Sigler (Sun Microsystems), Quality Engineer
  • Jim Holmlund (Sun Microsystems), JDK Engineer
  • Robert Field (Sun Microsystems), JDK Engineer
We need the community feedback, your ideas and comments are welcome at debugger feedback. Do you like coding and want to improve NetBeans IDE? Look for inspiration! NetBeans debugger architecture supports multiple debugger implementations, each debugger implementation can be defined in a special module. The debugger plug-in modules include:
  • Java debugger (JPDA)
  • JSP debugger
  • Java FX debugger
  • C/C++ debugger (dbx and gdb)
  • BPEL debugger
  • JavaScript debugger
  • PHP debugger
  • Python debugger
  • ANT debugger
  • Applet debugger
  • RMI debugger
  • JDK 1.1 debugger
  • See debuggercore module, which contains support for debugger implementations and defines common User Interface.

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