Java™ Oracle® Database Development

Debugging with JDeveloper

An important feature of JDeveloper is its ability to debug EJBs running in either the embedded server or a remote application server. We'll take a brief look at local debugging here. For information about remote debugging, consult Oracle's JDeveloper documentation.

To debug a program, we first need to set one or more breakpoints in our program. For example, open HelloWorldClient.java by double-clicking on the filename in the System Navigator. Locate the following line:

helloWorld = helloWorldHome.create(  );

Clicking on the number to the left of this line will set a breakpoint, indicated by a red dot that replaces the line number. Also set a breakpoint in our EJB, HelloWorldBean.java, at this line:

 return "Hello, world"; ...