Does Eclipse have Netbeans version of it’s debugger, because I found being able to see variable values in real time, amazing for debugging. Which is why I moved over to Netbeans.
Yes - I even prefer the debugger of Eclipse. But in essence they’re both talking to the debugger service of the JVM, its not like they’ll have different features. Just a slightly different UI representation.
I did see some weird behavior in Juno - the variables view was empty while on the first line of a method. I had to step to the second line for at least ‘this’ to appear there 
I sometimes use Netbeans 7.2.1 and I can’t see variable values in real time, I can see them only in debug mode during a pause like in Eclipse.
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So now we have one person using Netbeans to see variables in real time because allegedly it is not possible in Eclipse (which I can testify is not true) and one person claiming it is the other way around. Perhaps you should give each other your IDE installation 
I did ask the question if Eclipse had it as well, because I just didn’t know of it being in eclipse. I’m hardly dedicated to one or other though as said before the moving tabs is really annoying when it goes haywire which always happened to me.
I can’t see how realtime updating of variables is generally useful Mine tend to update at 60Hz.
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After holding for long time, in order to use libgdx’s html5 feature I downloaded eclipse juno for j2ee :persecutioncomplex:
Argh, through that joke I finally get the “realtime” aspect of the question. As in anytime when NOT halted on a breakpoint.
Indeed, Eclipse does not do that out of the box as far as I know.
I have eclipse 4.2.0. Is that bad? :persecutioncomplex:
Depends. If you’re on a Mac you’re pretty much safe as whatever problems exist (other than looking hideous out of the box) seem to be locked to Windows 7 and Linux. This issue thread explains all:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=385272
A big performance improvement is coming in the next service release apparently.