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Launching a Java Debugger in Eclipse - A Myriad of Options

Wed, 17 Sep 2025 07:00:01 +0000

How to start a debugger? Seriously? Is it really worth a story? Let us find out about the different features of launching..

We need to of course launch in Debug mode :

Debug Button

And then pick up the following option:

Pull down from the debug button

For the detail-oriented, there is this Show Command line option:

click to see command line

ok, let’s escape back to the world of ui fast:

Observability Landscape in Java

Wed, 13 Aug 2025 07:00:03 +0000

Java has become a well-established and widely adopted language. As software systems became more complex with the shift to microservices, Java observability tools evolved to meet new demands. It has evolved to address these new challenges, offering improved capabilities for monitoring, tracing, and debugging. This article explores the evolution of Java observability and its adaptation to modern cloud-native solutions. Lets discuss how they have shaped into the landscape of observability in Java applications today.

Breakpoints – The Lifeline of Debugging – An Eclipse Features Guide

Tue, 12 Aug 2025 07:00:01 +0000

Each and Every programmer would have got stuck with some debugging issue or the other so many times. And would have stopped the program at a breakpoint. And here is a detailed look at breakpoints.

As an Eclipse Committer, I have shown the Eclipse IDE pictures and have explained from the Eclipse IDE point of view. Every time we want to inspect a variable, see the stack, and what not, we need to break the program at some point — and hence we require breakpoints. There are a whole lot of features with breakpoints, let us start with the basics: