Enabling and disabling step-by-step debug mode

To enable step-by-step debugging, select a WebSphere Application Server debug target, thread, or stack frame in the Debug view, and do one of the following:

If step-by-step debugging is enabled, you can also disable it by doing one of the above. You can disable step-by-step mode by default by selecting the Disable step-by-step mode check box in the Step-by-Step Debug dialog box or you can change the default step-by-step mode in the preferences. The default mode is applied when a new debug session is started. Once the debug session is started, you can change the mode via one of the above methods.

If step-by-step mode is enabled, you will be prompted to debug every Web object loaded in the server in the application that you are debugging. If step-by-step mode is disabled, the Web object that you are debugging will continue to run. The debugger will stop at breakpoints if step-by-step mode is enabled or disabled.

If step-by-step filters are being applied, the debugger will stop at every Web object that is not filtered. You can set step-by-step filters through the preferences.

Note: Step-by-step debug mode is only supported when debugging Web objects that are running on a WebSphere Application Server version 5.0.

 

Related concepts

Step-by-step debugging

 

Related tasks

Setting debug preferences
Stepping into methods
Finding source
Debugging remote server requests