[eitland]

> The problem is that it's not just a matter of "learning the debugger for Java."

In the Java case, for stanalone projects (i.e. not something deployed on a server) an if it is your own project and you don't do anything unreasonable it is mostly just set a breakpoint and hit "run with debugging".

Probably the least painful debugging experience I know.

Doing it for Tomcat/Tomee was slightly more advanced IMO but still utterly trivial compared to wrangling css or js ;-)

There are reasons why we "old folks" like Java so much despite its verboseness.