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Java™ Platform Debugger Architecture

Enhancements

Following is a short summary of the enhancements to JPDA that have been added in Java SE 6. The documentation for these features is available in the JDI Specification.

Not shown here are the equivalent commands in JDWP. The documentation for these features is available in the JDWP Specification.

   - JVMDI has been deleted. See its replacement, JVM TI

   - heap walking
       5024119 Add ReferenceType.getAllInstances () method to JDI.
       5089849 Add support for backtracking reference graph.

       New methods:
         VirtualMachine:
           boolean boolean canGetInstanceInfo();       
           long[] instanceCounts(List

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