Eclipse: How to tell if I am Running or Debugging a non-server application?

Question

Eclipse will let you know if you started a server in Running or Debugging state. For example:

Is there a way to get this same information for locally executed programs (i.e., desktop application, not web server application)? I find often that I will be in the middle of testing my application and decide to set a breakpoint, but can't remember if I started via the Run or Debug icon. In this case, I normally kill it and start again (for sure this time in Debug mode). It would be useful to have this information available. Am I just missing it somewhere?

Answer 1

You can simply switch to the Debug perpective. The running application will be available. Then look in the Debug view : if you can expand using + your application and see running Threads, you are in debug mode. Otherwise, application is just 'running'.