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Bug 105629

Summary:	Make multi session debugging functionality more obvious
Product:	debugger	Reporter:	_ sandipchitale <sandipchitale>
Component:	Code	Assignee:	issues@debugger <issues>
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	blocker
Priority:	P3
Version:	6.x
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Exception Reporter:

Description _ sandipchitale 2007-06-04 19:11:50 UTC

NetBeans IDE supports multiple debugging sessions at the same time. However 
this functionality is not very obvious as the Windows:Debugging:Sessions 
window is not shown by default in the Debug group. Also the Debug toolbar is a 
global toolbar and it is not obvious that this applies to what ever session is 
the current selected session in the Sessions window.

A simple fix may be to make the Sessions window prominantly visible when the 
debugging session starts and move the debug toolbar to that window.

For example, Eclipse has a special window (View in Eclipse parlance) called 
Debug which in fact is a combined Session, Threads and Callstack view. The 
actions such as Step In, Step Out, ...Suspend, Continue and so on are found on 
this Debug windows toolbar.