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Eclipse Debugging Techniques And Tricks

Java Debugging with Eclipse IDE: Practical Techniques with Examples in Spring Boot, Servlet and JSP

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Created byLearning From Experience, Ayan Dutta

Last updated 11/2025

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What you'll learn

Learn all the required skills to debug any Java application using Eclipse
Master the techniques to quickly find out the root cause of the bug in a program
Gain the exposure the powerful debugging features that Eclipse provides

Course content

6 sections • 41 lectures • 4h 37m total length

Course Details2:00
Udemy Tips (Important)1:49
Install Eclipse On Windows3:08
Install Eclipse on Windows by downloading the Eclipse Oxygen for Java developers, extracting the zip, placing it in a folder, creating a desktop shortcut, and launching with a default workspace.
Steps To Download And Setup The Code Samples2:28
Important : Code Repositories used in the course0:42
Join Our Online Community (Slack)0:09

Placing Breakpoints and Running a Program in Debug Mode13:54
Learn to debug in Eclipse by placing breakpoints, running a Java program in debug mode, and inspecting variables in the debug perspective to control flow with resume and terminate.
Control Program Execution During Debugging12:41
Use of Step into selection,Hyperlink navigation and Run to line12:37
Step Into Selection, Hyper Link Navigation And Run To Line in Eclipse
Breakpoints view in details and deactivating breakpoints8:24
Master the breakpoints view in Eclipse debugging by adding, enabling, disabling, and removing breakpoints, including skip all breakpoints and remove all breakpoints to control program pauses.
Evaluating expressions using Inspect,Execute and Watch11:12
Use of Show logical structures8:32
Changing of variable's values during debugging6:38
Change variable values during Eclipse debugging by editing simple integers and collection elements, using breakpoints, the variables view, and logical structure to see live results.

Use of display view..scrapbooking your live code!7:11
Use of detail formatter ...controlling the display of the variables7:21
Learn to use Eclipse detail formatter to customize variable display during debugging. Create and enable custom output showing fields like name, age, and country for easier reading.
Displaying Objects as JSON in Eclipse Debugger using Detail Formatters10:23
Conditional breakpoint and Hit count9:39
Trigger Point or Breakpoint Trigger8:37
Exception breakpoint and Method breakpoint10:12
Exception Breakpoints: What “Subclasses of this exception” Really Controls0:37
Use of Drop to frame5:48
Learn how to use drop to frame in Eclipse debugging to trace call stacks, rewind to earlier frames, inspect variables, and resume execution to advance the program.
Step Filtering4:28
Download ,setup and run Web Application project with Eclipse and Tomcat3:43
Important : Change in Web Application setup with newer versions of Eclipse9:49
Debugging a web application8:04
Launch and debug a simple eclipse web app on tomcat in debug mode, place breakpoints in login and logout servlets, and trace the login.html to login servlet flow.
Debugging a JSP Page5:35
Debug a sample JSP page in Eclipse by placing breakpoints inside scriptlets and Java tags, then inspect request, response, out, and session to troubleshoot parameters and attributes.
Remote Debugging11:59
Step by step guide on debugging Java Web Projects running on remote Tomcat using Eclipse
Important points on Spring Boot and JDK Compatibility10:23
Explore how spring boot and jdk compatibility causes version-mismatch errors, and use the spring boot docs matrix to select compatible jdk and spring boot versions.
Debugging a Spring Boot Rest Web Service2:03
Remote Debugging a Spring Boot Rest Web Service3:50
Spring Boot Microservices Debugging in Docker with Eclipse19:59
This lesson covers the following topics step by step
Create and Run Two Spring Boot MicroServices Locally from Eclipse
Run the Spring Boot Microservices on Docker using docker-compose
Debug the Spring Boot Microservices on Docker using Eclipse

Important Note: Setting the Right Expectations0:31
Spring Boot Development : The Eclipse Guide14:23
Spring Boot Maven : The Beginner's Guide16:13
Building a REST API with Spring Boot 3 and Eclipse5:24
Build a simple Spring Boot rest API in Eclipse using Spring Tool Suite, create a rest controller with get and post mappings, test with Postman.
Spring Boot CRUD with JPA, Postman & H25:24
Create a simple spring boot rest api in Eclipse using the Spring Tool Suite, with a get and post endpoint, and verify it with Postman.

Requirements

Basics of Java
Basics of Eclipse ( Java)

Description

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Join over 10,000+ students in this Eclipse Debugging Techniques And Tricks course.

Eclipse is one of the most popular IDEs out there used for Java (not only for just Java, but also for C++,PHP etc.)

This course is a entirely hands-on and an example based comprehensive course ,which would will guide you to learn and master the essentials of the Java Debugging using the popular Eclipse IDE.

Powerful Debugging Skill at Your Fingertips

While working in real life Java projects or learning the language ,debugging is a key aspect which you must learn to handle programming related issues or understand any application flow properly .This course will give you a strong background to easily learn and master the debugging techniques and tricks using Eclipse IDE .

Content and Overview

Entire course is broken down to the following categories:

Basic debugging features
Advanced debugging features
Sample Debugging Problems And Their Solution

The basic debugging features covered:

How to place breakpoints and run a program in debug mode
How to control a program execution during debugging
Use of Step into selection,Hyperlink navigation and Run to line
Breakpoints view in details and deactivating breakpoints
Evaluating expressions using Inspect,Execute and Watch
Use of Show logical structures
Changing of variable's values during debugging

The advanced debugging features covered:

Use of display view..scrapbooking your live code!
Use of detail formatter ...controlling the display of the variables
Conditional breakpoint and Hit count
Exception breakpoint and Method breakpoint
Use of Drop to frame
Debugging a web application
Remote Debugging

The course initially starts with basics of debugging and then slowly moves to the practical aspects of debugging with easy examples.

Once the primary aspects are covered , the basic and advanced debugging features of Eclipse are explained.

The section Sample Debugging Problems And Their Solution is about sample problem solving on dummy debugging problem scenarios by applying the debugging skills you have learnt from the course.

By the end of the Eclipse Debugging Techniques And Tricks, you will master the fundamentals needed to for Debugging java based applications using Eclipse.

Who this course is for:

Any Java Beginner
Java Developer
Java EE Developer

Eclipse Debugging Techniques And Tricks

What you'll learn

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Course content

Introduction to Java Debugging Using Eclipse6 lectures • 10min

Basic Debugging Features7 lectures • 1hr 14min

Advanced Debugging Features18 lectures • 2hr 20min

Sample Debugging Problems And Their Solution3 lectures • 11min

Optional: Spring Boot Lesson for Eclipse Users (Curated From My YouTube Channel)5 lectures • 42min

Wrap Up2 lectures • 1min

Requirements

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