Re: debugging w/o projects [was: File menu gone ?]
Jan Jancura <[email protected]>
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Ivan Soleimanipour wrote: >Here's a slightly related thing. >Can you debug something that is not under a project? > >We often think of debugging as an activity that one does on their own code >on their own machine. In such situations we desire a reproducible testacase >and just run everything under the ide. > >But there are situations when you're trying to debug someone else's >code which was not even developed using NB and you feel most >comfortable with NB as a debugger front end. > >You might be debugging this other code because you delivered a component >to them, a jar file, that you build using NB but are forced to debug >it in the context of whomever you delivered to component to. > >Or ... if some day in the future you end up with stepping through an >RMI call into a server on remote host will the code for that server >have to be part of some "project" for things to work? > > >This is related to the File issue in the sense that editing files >isn't the only thing that one might want to do outside of the world of >projects. Maybe one conclusion from this might be that debuggercore >should be able to be configured so it worls if there are no projects? > > > This is one possibility. Secon one is that you will create some dummy project in this case. (I prefer second one). Hanz