Debugging and Profiling

Debugging and profiling are probably the two most important things, besides writing code, for which you can use Apache NetBeans. Debugging is the art of figuring out problems and their root causes. Apache NetBeans provides a very feature-rich debugging environment from multiple sessions to multiple languages. If debugging makes your code right, profiling will make it run fast. Apache NetBeans contains one of the most advanced profiling engines for memory and CPU profiling based on the JFluid technology developed by Sun Microsystems. Although Apache NetBeans supports debugging for a lot of different programming languages and project types, the following chapter focuses on support for the JVM and the Java Language.