Starting a Debugging Session

This page explains how to start debugging a standalone program or applet project. To begin, you must have a project that you compiled inside JDE with the -g option. If you don't have such a project, debugging is disabled.

To start debugging a project:

  1. Double-click a project in the Project Manager window to select the project you want to debug.
    The source editor window automatically loads your program source files (if the sources are available).
  2. Set a breakpoint in your program.
  3. Click the Restart button on the Edit/Debug toolbar.
    The following actions occur:
On Microsoft Windows 95 and Microsoft Windows NT, the applet viewer does not respond to window operations, such as repainting, when the applet is suspended at a breakpoint. To manipulate the viewer under these circumstances, do one of the following:

See also:

Debugging in the Source Editor