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Finding Two participants hadn't noticed a runtime exception thrown into the program output tab because the debugger console was in front. Severity This is quite a big problem given that the console window wasn't useful at all during debugging. Recommendation Consider making the program output tab selected by default. Or put the program output tab to front when a new exception is thrown. Or consider not showing the debugger console by default and make it easily accessible for those who need it.
Perhaps this is a fault of debugger that it does not display uncaught exceptions by default. But I agree that the program input/output might be more interesting then debugger tab. We need to create a concept of activating the debugger tab only when there's something of a real interest.
I believe that this is fixed now in NB 6.0. Please verify. The Debugger Console is activated only when there is something important - like when it prints info about invalid breakpoints.
Verified ... and Closing all issues resolved into NetBeans 6.7 and earlier.