Re: STRDBG JAR

[David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Don’t use the green screen debugger.

Start the jar with remote debug parameters and attach your favorite Java
ide (or RDI, which includes a full java ide).

David

On Mon, Nov 28, 2022 at 4:52 PM Justin Taylor <jtaylor.0ab@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I don't normally need to debug my Java code on IBMi.  Virtually always I
> can do that on my PC before I upload the JAR.  Now I had an existing JAR
> break when I upgraded IBMi from 7.3 to 7.5.  I've always explicitly set the
> JVM (jdk11/64bit), so the JVM didn't change during the upgrade.  I need to
> figure out why I'm suddenly getting a NullPointerException.
>
> When I do a STRDBG CLASS(), the Display Module Source screen tells me
> "(Source not available.)".  Do I need to specify something different on the
> command, or do I need to build the JAR differently to allow debug?
>
>
> TIA
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