Debug eclipse IDE itself

Question

I would love to learn how to debug eclipse IDE. Back to the time when I was using VS for .NET development, I can attach VS to a process at anytime and start to trace down th

Answer 1

One thing you can do with any Java application to see what is going on right now is send it a kill -QUIT. This will cause the JVM to dump the stack traces for all of its threads to stdout. Do this three times with a second in between and you can see which threads are not moving along nicely.

Another thing to try is to attach a JConsole to the running process.