Debugging with JSwat. While not very portable, you do get all the bells and whistles, which can make debugging shorter and a whole lot more fun. For example, in JSwat you can trace through the elements of a linked list quite easily, by repeatedly clicking on a certain icon. After recompiling a source file and re-making the executable, GVD will automatically re-load the executable but will not automatically reload the new source. Historical Debuggers Main tools : This category of tools relies on you not being able or not wanting to stall the JVM to collect state or take a heap snapshot.
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