Rocket Surgery

I’ve been spending some time working with the JPDA - Java Platform Debugger Architecture - and it’s pretty darn cool. Using this framework, which is shipped with the basic Java SE JDK, basically allows you to write debuggers.

I hear you ask: Why on earth would you want to do this when there are so many good debuggers already? Eclipse does everything I need!

True. But what if you need one process to monitor the execution of another? And I don’t mean to have interprocess communication, I mean for one process to MONITOR THE EXECUTION of the other. Sounds like a debugger to me. Why should Eclipse have all the fun?

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