2.8 released

Numerous bug fixes and several nice enhancements. This is the first
release to have portions of the code tested using JUnit. Ironically
enough, I did almost no manual testing, so watch out for bugs and please
report anything unusual to [email protected].

Here are the gory details:

- Added new help file describing how to use the Start VM dialog.
- Implemented RFE 43: added a tooltip to the locals panel to display
  detailed information about the variable under the mouse.
- Implemented RFE 428: added a means of easily setting the system
  property values that are passed to the debuggee when launched. The
  feature is accessible in the Start VM dialog via a button.
- Implemented RFE 455: added vertical whitespace to the command help.
- Implemented RFE 462: added search feature to the help viewer.
- Implemented RFE 545: added see-also references to the command help.
- Implemented RFE 557: option to set breakpoint in main(String[]) method
  of the "main" class when launching the debuggee.
- Implemented RFE 561: expression evaluator now supports 'length'
  references on arrays.
- Implemented RFE 570: can now set method breakpoints without giving the
  method arguments, including the parentheses.
- Implemented RFE 587: added 'bytecodes' command to display bytecodes
  for methods with detailed opcode information, if available.
- Implemented RFE 605: 'threadbrk' supports on-death and on-start
  conditions to control when the breakpoint is considered hit.
- Fixed bug 586: made the implicit "*." on breakpoints optional, with
  the default being off (because it was causing me problems).
- Fixed bug 588: method breakpoint without arguments eventually caused
  a null pointer exception when persisting the breakpoint.
- Fixed bug 589: mouse released events in the source view gutter will
  no longer affect the breakpoint defined at that line when the popup
  menu is still visible.
- Fixed bug 590: make sure breakpoint properties dialog does not slip
  behind the main window when an error message appears.
- Fixed bug 591: make sure the -jar option is supported when launching
  the debuggee from either the Start VM dialog or the load command.
- Fixed bug 592: made the tutorial reference in the help index page
  to not be a link; avoids proxy errors for users behind a firewall.
- Fixed bug 594: made the README.html notes about preferences errors
  a little more generic to cover more problem cases.
- Fixed bug 595: 'class' and 'field' commands failed to check if the
  session was active, causing a null pointer exception.
- Fixed bug 596: class and thread breakpoints were not notifying the
  session listeners that the debuggee had suspended.
- Fixed bug 598: invoking 'filter del ...' on breakpoint with no
  filters would throw a null pointer exception.
- Fixed bug 600: fixed 'classbrk' and 'watch' commands to handle missing
  arguments more gracefully.
- Fixed bug 602: thread filters on some types of breakpoints were
  throwing exceptions.
- Fixed bug 604: single-stepping actions did not properly notify the
  session listeners, which would have eventually led to problems.
- Fixed bug 606: changing a thread breakpoint from "on start" to
  "on death" made the breakpoint not stop at all.
- Fixed bug 607: the 'set' command was failing to up-cast values to
  greater precision types (e.g. byte to int, or short to long).
- Fixed bug 613: file selection dialogs default to wrong directory on
  their initial appearance (should be current working directory).

enjoy

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