That has changed somewhat. Among other innovations, Visual Studio Code now has good support for editing, running, and debugging Java code through a set of Java-specific extensions.

The latest update to Java on Visual Studio Code improves the debugging experience thanks to support for the newly released Java 19.

With a simple class defined in Java source code, I can now use javac with various -g options to compile .class files with correspondingly different debug support.

The April 2021 update to Java on Visual Studio Code mainly improves debugging and testing.

Microsoft's Java in Visual Studio Code has been updated with new features for the Spring Framework, as well as improvements for build tools and debugging.

Back-in-time debugging allows programmers to go back into their code and step into a method and investigate a bug caused by it after it has already run, something that conventional debuggers don ...

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While writing code is one thing, being able to share debugging sessions may actually be even more important to many developers. Live Share supports all major languages, including C#, Python, Java ...