Less than a month after Microsoft released a Visual Studio Code extension to provide Java debugging, the company announced it was such a big hit that it's been improved and open sourced, as promised.

Microsoft updated the open source Java debugger for Visual Studio Code, adding support for Java 9 among other improvements. The Java debugger -- an extension in the VS Code Marketplace -- was ...

Microsoft open sourced a Java debugger it developed for the lightweight, open source Visual Studio Code editor. About a month ago, the company released the VS Code extension to provide Java debugging, ...

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The latest update of Java on Visual Studio Code (VS Code), announced last week, focused on improving the code editor's debugging and testing features. For Java developers using Microsoft's streamlined ...

I have been searching for the last few days for a good graphical debugger for Java. Functionality something like Cygwin's GDB would be excellent - however I haven't found a good substitute. I'll try ...

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 ...

Java is one of the most important languages for Visual Studio Code (VS Code), and Microsoft's latest update to its open-source cross-platform editor are designed to "make the product friendlier" to ...

With the Extension Pack for Java, VS Code makes a highly capable Java IDE and formidable competitor to Eclipse, NetBeans, and IntelliJ IDEA. There was a time when your choices for Java IDEs were ...