Learning to Debug !

[Jennifer Wallace]

Currently I am using 'System.out.println' statements to debug. But this is getting on my nerves.
I looked into the debugging application "jdb" which comes along with jdk. Where can I find a user friendly documentation on it, on how to use it ? Or is there some other popular Debugger used ? Something which would help me put breakpoints on execution, check on variable values etc..

[John Smith]

Why not download a free edition of the IDE (Borland JBuilder Personal Edition, Sun Forte Community Edition, etc)?
Eugene Kononov.

[Dirk Schreckmann]

You can learn all about jdb from Sun in their article jdb - The Java Debugger.
As Eugene suggested, I prefer using an IDE for debugging. The documentation for the IDE hopefully describes in detail how to use the feature.
Good Luck.

[Jessica Sant]

Everyone has their favorite IDE -- Mine is IntelliJ IDEA. It has a 21-day eval period.

[David Weitzman]

JDB is evil. I'm quite satisfied with the debugger in Eclipse, although I haven't tried many others (I couldn't get the ones with plugins for JEdit to work).

[hubert humptis]

Use Emacs with the JDE...Emacs is the greastest invention since sliced bread. It can do anything u want and even make u coffee and grill a steak.