Debugging is one task every developer wants to avoid but it is unfortunately a necessary evil of software development. In fact, as EDN's Embedded Study revealed, embedded development projects on ...

How can we debug method calls that are not part of our own source code, say a call to JButton.setEnabled()? Java provides us with anonymous inner classes, which come in quite handy for this problem.

Here's a list of debugging tips and secrets from Li Mei, a character in Lisa Simone's nonfiction book on programming recounting the fictional adventures of a team of software developers working on ...