Chapter 10. Debugging and Logging
Debugging and logging are the tools that a developer can use to identify the root cause of bugs or unexpected behavior of applications.
The aim of debugging is to find a defect or pain point in our code, which is responsible for a problem. Logging gives us information about an application's state and the various stages of processing it. In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Debugging a Play application
- Configuring logging
- Experimenting in a Scala console
Debugging a Play application
Play applications can be debugged using a Java Platform Debugger Architecture (JPDA) transport. According to the Oracle documentation (refer to http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/guides/jpda/conninv.html):
A JPDA ...
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