Virtual Threads (source: Microsoft). More about this feature is available in Oracle's Java Magazine article, " Coming to Java 19: Virtual threads and platform threads." Debugging in Java on VS Code is ...

Less than a month after Microsoft released a Visual Studio Code extension to provide Java debugging, the company announced it was such a big hit that it's been improved and open sourced, as promised.

Debug UI Debug views work against the standard model and update in response to debug events. These include Debug, Variables, Registers, Expressions, Breakpoints, Console.

Microsoft open sourced a Java debugger it developed for the lightweight, open source Visual Studio Code editor. About a month ago, the company released the VS Code extension to provide Java debugging, ...

Debugging is fairly standard: you typically set breakpoints and then view variables in a tab of the debugging perspective. You can, of course, step through your code and evaluate expressions.

Microsoft's Java in Visual Studio Code has been updated with new features for the Spring Framework, as well as improvements for build tools and debugging.