From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Dec 16 11:03:10 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA18844 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 16 Dec 1997 11:03:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA18836 for ; Tue, 16 Dec 1997 11:02:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA01222; Tue, 16 Dec 1997 12:02:43 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id MAA09344; Tue, 16 Dec 1997 12:02:41 -0700 Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 12:02:41 -0700 Message-Id: <199712161902.MAA09344@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Thomas David Rivers Cc: nate@mt.sri.com, tg@award.de, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: JDK port, anyone ? In-Reply-To: <199712161903.OAA14117@lakes.dignus.com> References: <199712161903.OAA14117@lakes.dignus.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > 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... I'm glad to hear it, but given the 'state of the art' in Thread debuggers, forgive me for not being too terribly optimistic that anything significant will happen within the next 6-12 months. Nate