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Bug 24716 - Starting a program that is already being debugged should restart the existing session
Summary: Starting a program that is already being debugged should restart the existing...
Status: CLOSED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: debugger
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Code (show other bugs)
Version: 3.x
Hardware: All All
: P4 blocker (vote)
Assignee: issues@debugger
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Reported: 2002-06-12 23:03 UTC by David-john Burrowes
Modified: 2010-04-29 09:10 UTC (History)
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Description David-john Burrowes 2002-06-12 23:03:35 UTC 
From http://ui.netbeans.org/docs/hi/debugger3.4/overview/index.html#session-management

When you start debugging a program, if there is already a session associated with that 
program that is not running, the IDE will restart the existing session, rather than creating a 
new session.
Comment 1 Jan Jancura 2002-06-13 09:06:42 UTC 
What does it mean "session associated with that program that is not
running"? I do not understand. Can you reproduce this problem in some
current version and describe steps "how to reproduce", please?
Comment 2 Jan Jancura 2002-06-13 15:55:12 UTC 
wfm
Comment 3 David-john Burrowes 2002-06-13 23:20:01 UTC 
I guess my original wording wasn't very clear.
This is an example of what that was mentioning:

Start debugging program X
Kill/terminate the program (without destroying the session)
Start debugging program X again
  This would just restart the session.  It would not create a new one and it would not prompt the user "do you want to 
create a new session".

Put another way, if a particular session is associated with a program, and there is no running program associated with 
the session, choosing "run in debugger" on the program would act like just like a "restart" command on the session.

(none of this is applicable to 3.4 since when a program quits we destroy the session)
Comment 4 Jan Jancura 2002-06-14 10:11:24 UTC 
David John,
You are probably thinking about F4J and IFDEF debugger. We do not have
nothing like session without process, and "restart" functionality in
NetBeans.
Comment 5 David-john Burrowes 2002-06-17 21:37:19 UTC 
Actually, I wasn't thinking of the ifdef stuff.  This was a feature that was intended for 3.4, but 
didn't make it in.  True, it does require having a Restart action.  That had also been intended for 
3.4, but didn't make it in.  This is why I marked this issue as having a target milestone of 4.0.  
Should I have marked this in some other way?  (e.g. marked that it is dependent on the issue saying 
we need a restart action?)
Comment 6 David-john Burrowes 2002-07-11 23:04:08 UTC 
Well, I'm reopening the issue and leaving it's target milestone as
4.0.  I hope that's not bad to do.
Comment 7 _ lcincura 2005-05-12 16:41:33 UTC 
Debugger in current NB versions behaves as multisession, restart of existing
session does not make sense now.
Comment 8 Quality Engineering 2010-04-29 09:10:33 UTC 
Verified ... and Closing all issues resolved into NetBeans 6.7 and earlier.