Eclipse and Java: Using the Debugger Companion Tutorial Document

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Introduction & Setup
This document is designed to accompany the “Eclipse And Java: Using the Debugger” video tutorial,
which is available at http://eclipsetutorial.sourceforge. Before starting this tutorial, please
download the following files from the website:
● Debugger-Tutorial-Companion-Document.PDF – this document.
● debugger_tutorial_project.zip – zip file for importing the Eclipse “DebuggerTutorial” project.
This is done as part of Lesson 1.
● debugger-lesson01.zip through debugger-lesson07.zip – zip files for the 7 lessons in the
tutorial


Playing the Lessons
1. Unzip each lesson's zip file into a directory on your system.
2. Find the file called “lessonxx.html”, where xx is the lesson number 01-07.
3. Open this file with your browser (e.g., Internet Explorer or Firefox) and press the large play
button on the video thumbnail. The lesson should play inside the browser. Note that you need
to have the Adobe Flash player installed on your system. This can be downloaded from Adobe
at http://adobeproducts/flashplayer/.
Alternatively, you can just open the file “lessonxx.swf” with your browser. In Windows Internet
Explorer you might get a security warning and need to click and select “Allow blocked content”. If you
open the lessonxx.swf file directly (as opposed to lessonxx.html), you can resize the video to any
desired size, making it larger or smaller. Note that playing the video from the lessonxx.html file will
provide the clearest rendition of the video but does not allow resizing.


Tutorial Target Audience
This tutorial is targeted for people who have complete the tutorial “Eclipse and Java for Total
Beginners” or who have some familiarity with Eclipse and Java. Completing the “Introducing
Persistence” tutorial is not necessary but might be helpful to beginning Eclipse and Java
programmers. No prior experience with the Eclipse Java Debugger is needed for this tutorial.
Tutorial Objectives
The objectives of this tutorial are to:
Demonstrate how to use the Eclipse Java debugger to step through a running Java program
and examine the contents of the program's variables