Question

In Visual Studio, it was possible during debugging sessions to jump to the line selected by the cursor and execute that line. After jumping to that line, you can continue debugging from the line that you’ve jumped to. Does this feature exist on the Java/Eclipse world?

For example:

foo1();

foo2();

foo3();

return true;

In Visual Studio it is possible to break on foo1(), place the cursor on foo3(), execute foo3() without executing foo2. Furthermore, when the debugger is stopped on "return true", I can place the cursor on foo1, and execute foo1 again. Furthermore, I can continue to execute arbitrary lines of code through these actions.

Answer 1

Yes. Put a breakpoint on the line, hit F8, wait for the program to execute until this line, and press F6 to go to the next line, or F5 to step into the current line.

EDIT:

Once the thread is paused in the debugger, you may also select some runnable code, right-click, and choose “Display” (Ctll-Shift-D) or “Execute” (Ctrl-U). You may also use the Display view to type any statement, select it, and execute or display it.