Re: Java Debugging in Eclipse

["David Morris" <David.Morris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mark,

Thanks, I have seen some of the new debugging support, which
looks promising. Lately, I haven't been following the Eclipse
newsgroup group closely; I will look for that discussion. Like I said,

I am looking forward to Eclipse, but too often, I tend to fall back to

what I know.

David Morris

>>> MarkP@softlanding.com 01/15/02 02:55PM >>>

David,

As I understand it, what you are talking about is being able to change
code
while in the debugger and have it take effect immediately?  This has
been
discussed in the Eclipse newsgroup.  Apparently, VAJ does some custom
hacks
to the JVM to have this feature.  This is one of the many reasons why
VAJ
is always so far behind on the Java level it supports.

Apparently there are changes in the upcoming 1.4 version of the JDK
that
will allow tools to use this feature.  You can use the beta of this
JDK
today with Eclipse/WSAD and apparently the feature works to some
degree,
although I believe there are some bugs.  I have not personally tried
it.

I would recommend you join the Eclipse newsgroup and search the
archives,
just search for "hotswap".

Hope this helps.

Mark