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DebugBreak equivalent in Java?

I'm looking for a way to break into the debugger from Java code, without setting a breakpoint in the IDE.

In Win32 there was DebugBreak(), in C# there's DebugBreak() Equivalent in C#, but I can't find anything in Java.

What I'm trying to do: say I have a wait with a 30s timeout, but in normal conditions that wait should always be <1s. I'd like to use ByteMan or something similar to wait with 1s timeout first, and break into the debugger if that wait timed out.

Solution

  • The poster of this question has done exactly what I was looking for: Secure Debugging for Production JVMs

    It reproduces the best feature of DebugBreak, that is you can attach the IDE to your program only after the "breakpoint" is hit.