Container security incidents remain a routine problem for software teams, and many of the day-to-day choices developers make to keep Java services easy to build and troubleshoot can increase security ...

For at least the past ten years, there's been a rising chorus of voices calling for the adoption of memory-safe programming languages and techniques. This has meant encouraging developers to avoid ...

Note: JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS is NOT set globally to avoid affecting other Java tools (javac, maven, gradle). Instead, it's set only when you run the debugjava command. When you run debugjava, the wrapper ...

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Abstract: In contrast to stepping, tracing is a debugging technique that does not suspend the execution. This technique is more suitable for debugging programs whose correctness is compromised by the ...

The Java Class File Disassembler (javap) is a useful tool for the Java developer that I have referenced in previous blog posts covering a variety of contexts such as detecting the innards of a Groovy ...