RFR: 8304503: Modernize debugging jvm args in demo netbeans projects

Phil Race prr at openjdk.org
Fri Apr 7 02:17:49 UTC 2023


On Mon, 20 Mar 2023 13:06:19 GMT, Eirik Bjorsnos <duke at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Please review this PR which suggests to modernize the JVM arguments used to enable debugging in the netbeans project files for demos. 
> 
> The netbeans projects found in src/demo/share/nbproject currently use the following outdated combination of jvm arguments to set up debugging:
> 
> 
> <jvmarg value="-Xdebug"/>
> <jvmarg value="-Xnoagent"/>
> <jvmarg value="-Djava.compiler=none"/>
> <jvmarg value="-Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,address=${jpda.address}"/>
> 
> 
> They should instead just do:
> 
> 
> <jvmarg value="-agentlib:jdwp=transport=dt_socket,server=n,suspend=n,address=${jpda.address}"/>
> 
> 
> Additionally, the source dir set up in build.properties for these projects do not seem to align with the source layout.
> 
> `src.dir=${main.dir}/src` should instead be just `src.dir=${main.dir}/`

No one has maintained these in a long time.
Did you manually verify all of these with a recent netbeans?

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PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/13101#pullrequestreview-1375753764



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