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Bug 145662 - Ability to debug custom Ant tasks
Summary: Ability to debug custom Ant tasks
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: debugger
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Ant (show other bugs)
Version: 6.x
Hardware: All All
: P3 blocker with 1 vote (vote)
Assignee: Martin Entlicher
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Reported: 2008-08-30 04:12 UTC by _ gtzabari
Modified: 2008-09-10 04:50 UTC (History)
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Description _ gtzabari 2008-08-30 04:12:43 UTC 
Netbeans is able to step through build.xml or Java files but not both. Specifically what I am trying to do is step
through build.xml, then when I encounter a task that interests me I'd like to step into its execute() method. Right now
hitting STEP-INTO on an Ant task simply steps over it instead. This makes it impossible to debug custom Ant tasks.
Comment 1 Jesse Glick 2008-09-10 04:50:12 UTC 
Impossible to implement in any straightforward way, as Ant is currently always run in-process, and the IDE cannot debug
its own VM. Would be a major effort to do this right.