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by lenkite 395 days ago
Please - you can definitely do this in Java. Its been a standard basic feature of Java tooling for 25 years now. (Its the equivalent of saying that Rust doesn't have a package manager).

I strongly urge reading some elementary tutorials to educate yourself.

See https://www.baeldung.com/java-application-remote-debugging for CLI based remote debugging

But most people use IDE's.

See https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/debugging-your-first-jav...

and https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/tutorial-remote-debug.ht...

Java's debugging experience is better than any language out there - with the possible exception of Common LISP. I always cry when I need to debug a project written in another language after so much comfort using Java.