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Bug 20184

Summary:	Separate Execution and Debugging capabilities
Product:	debugger	Reporter:	David-john Burrowes <davidjon>
Component:	Code	Assignee:	issues@debugger <issues>
Status:	CLOSED FIXED
Severity:	blocker	CC:	tor
Priority:	P4
Version:	3.x
Hardware:	PC
OS:	All
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Exception Reporter:

Description David-john Burrowes 2002-02-06 00:19:55 UTC

At the moment NetBeans makes the assumption that anything that is executable is also debuggable (and vice versa).  This is true, at the 
moment, for Java things, but it isn't true for other things.   For example, shell scripts are executable, but not necessarily debuggable (this 
is also true of build scripts like makefiles).  Core/crash files are often debuggable, but not executable.

It would be desirable to have separate debugging and executable capabilities added to files so that incorrect actions are not enabled in the 
IDE.

Comment 1 David-john Burrowes 2002-05-30 18:23:10 UTC

Actually, I think this is a little more important than a P4, but its target shouldn't be NB3.4, so I've changed the 
target to 4.0

In addition to the factors I mentioned below, this also seems to allow me to run an arbitrary java file with the 
debugger, even when that java file has no main().

(maybe this will be less of an issue when we get Projects?)

Comment 2 Jan Jancura 2003-05-07 16:37:16 UTC

fixed in nb4.0 branch

Comment 3 Jan Jancura 2003-05-07 16:37:34 UTC

fixed in nb4.0 branch

Comment 4 Marian Mirilovic 2009-10-01 14:48:40 UTC

reopen to fix status and resolution

Comment 5 Marian Mirilovic 2009-10-01 14:51:14 UTC

fix status and resolution

Comment 6 Quality Engineering 2010-04-29 09:09:38 UTC

Verified ... and Closing all issues resolved into NetBeans 6.7 and earlier.