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Re: debugging applets

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Payne)
Fri Jun 9 18:50:28 1995

Date: Fri, 9 Jun 1995 15:30:51 -0700
From: jpayne@starwave.com (Jonathan Payne)
To: jsparkes@bnr.ca
Cc: java-interest@java.sun.com
In-Reply-To: <"29324 Fri Jun  9 17:14:19 1995"@bnr.ca> (jsparkes@bnr.ca)

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> I've finally written enough java code to start debugging.  There's doesn't
> seems to be a lot of support for it.  The best I get is a stack traceback
> in in my HotJava weblog file.

Use System.out.println("message");

Fire up hotjava like this:

	java browser.hotjava

and standard output won't get redirected to a file.

> There are a couple of problems:
> 1. the -l option to java-a3 to set the logging level doesn't work.  And
>    there's no documentation of what the levels are.

This is logging at the C level - monitor enter, monitor exit, etc.
You don't care about this at all.  And it only works with the debug
version of java: java_g.

> 2. System.traceMethodCalls(1) doesn't do anything either.

This works, but it only works for java_g.

> I'd like to hear how the current java developers debug.  And I think there
> should be a section on it in the programmers guide.

System.out.println rules!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey - you'd be amazed how far you can get with it :-)  I understand a
debugger is on its way.

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> Jeff Sparkes
> jsparkes@bnr.ca    Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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