Debugging Applications
When syntax errors occur in your code, the Visual J++ compiler alerts you to these errors by displaying a message that indicates that your application was not successfully updated, and by displaying a list of errors in the Visual J++ task list.
However, often the errors that occur within your code are not language syntax errors, but are instead errors in logic — infinite loops, for example. To address bugs like these, you use the features supported by the Visual J++ debugger.
See Basic Debugging Procedures to learn more about using the integrated debugger with Visual J++ projects. These procedures show you how to set breakpoints, step through code, view run-time values of member variables, and much more. For more information about the general features the integrated debugger shares with other products, see the tables in The Debugging Process.
The online documentation also provides scenarios that have been created to show you how to use the debugger’s features with specific types of Visual J++ projects. Details for recreating example projects can be found throughout the procedures in the following scenarios: