2.4. Running HelloWorld in development mode
Development mode is where you’ll spend most of your time. Once you’ve used development mode for a while, it’s easy to forget how magical it is. In this mode your application is running in a browser linked back to your Java code in your IDE by the Development Mode Browser Plugin we discussed in chapter 1. The benefit, beyond using the browser of your choice, is that you don’t need to keep going through compilation cycles in order to check your application.
Even better, if you’re using an IDE with a debugger, you can link your running application to it. You can add break points in Eclipse, and when you reach that part of the code while using the browser, Eclipse’s debugger kicks in. Then you can inspect ...
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