Debugging

Debugging an application involves trying to determine the state of the application at different stages during its execution. Debugging is essentially an “intrusive” activity that probes the condition of the application. For developers, debugging is a means of verifying that the application is running properly. There are different ways to carry out the debugging of an application. Because you will be focusing on writing Java applications, let's cover techniques relevant to those applications.

When the Java Development Kit was introduced, there were no IDEs available for writing source code. IDE, as the name connotes, is a full-fledged integrated development environment that provides support not only for writing formatted source code ...

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