7.5. Distilled

• The Debug Perspective includes several views specialized for debugging activities: a Debug view of running threads and, when suspended, their stack frames; Variables, Expressions , and Display views for exploring object state; and a Breakpoints view for managing a list of all breakpoints in your code.

• After execution has stopped on a breakpoint, there are several options for resuming or terminating execution, or stepping through the program statement-by-statement.

• The Variables view shows fields, local variables, and method parameters for the stack frame selected in the Debug view. The stack frame provides the execution context for these variables.

• You can evaluate code snippets that display, inspect, or update program state. Pop-up windows may be used to display or inspect selected expressions within a Java editor during a debug session.

• You can assign a Detail Formatter that defines a customized output string used to display values of any class during debugging. This formatter overrides a class's toString() method.

• Hot Code Replace facilitates experimental development by allowing you to make changes to code in the midst of a debug session without restarting the Java VM.

• The client/server design of the Java debugger allows you to launch a Java program from a computer on your network and debug it from Eclipse running on your workstation.