The Java Class File Disassembler (javap) is a useful tool for the Java developer that I have referenced in previous blog posts covering a variety of contexts such as detecting the innards of a Groovy ...

The APIs we’ll be using are part of the Java Debug Interface (JDI), a set of Java APIs for remotely inspecting a running application. It’s part of the Java Platform Debugger Architecture, which also ...

Write once, debug/test everywhere is a variant on Java's write once, run anywhere claim, and it defines the Java Platform Debugger Architecture (JPDA). The JPDA is a client/server system built from ...

Microsoft's Visual Studio Code team has added initial support for the JUnit 5 testing framework, along with other Java functionality via extensions to the open source, cross-platform code editor.

As part of a wide-ranging collaboration with Pivotal Software Inc., Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor is getting improved support for Java and Pivotal's Spring Boot framework in the form of new ...