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From: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com>
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To: nate@mt.sri.com, tg@award.de
Subject: Re: JDK port, anyone ?
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> 
> > I know about the port, I've seen it. Unfortunately it doesn't sport a
> > debugger, even if it is only jdb.
> 
> In reality, having used almost *every* Java development environment out
> there (including Cafe, VCafe, JWS 1.0, JWS 2.0, JBuilder, jdb, and
> others too numerous to mention) there is no such thing as a *working*
> debugger for Java. :(
> 
> System.out.println is your friend. :)
> 

 I can assure you that some people are working closely with Sun
 on improving this very problem...

	- Dave Rivers -