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Last I checked, IDEA is the most feature rich of the three debuggers as well. Besides normal support for breaking when a condition is true, you can instead set a breakpoint to log an expression (basically allowing you to do custom printlns without recompiling your code), setting dependent breakpoints (i.e. only activate this breakpoint after this other breakpoint has been hit; very useful for high-traffic areas of co…
> (i.e. only activate this breakpoint after this other breakpoint has been hit; very useful for high-traffic areas of code) Wow, seeing that just completely sold me. I've been wanting that in eclipse for ages. Pity I won't be able to use it for work-work, just home-work :-)
Re: Java Debugger – The Definitive List of Tools
#11Why not? Personal licence allows you to use it for work-work.