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When working with breakpoints in Eclipse I sometimes notice that they have different icons / annotations (markers on left sidebar). Sometimes it's just a blue ball, sometimes it has a checkmark on it and sometimes it is crossed. What do all these annotations mean?
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A breakpoint is a signal that tells the debugger to temporarily suspend execution of your program at a certain point in the code. To define a breakpoint in your source code, right-click in the left margin in the Java editor and select Toggle Breakpoint. Alternatively, you can double-click on this position.
Trigger points act as triggers for all other breakpoints, so any other breakpoints will act as if they are disabled until the trigger point is hint, and will work normally from then on.
In software development, a breakpoint is an intentional stopping or pausing place in a program, put in place for debugging purposes. It is also sometimes simply referred to as a pause.
A breakpoint helps to speed up the debugging process in a large program by allowing the execution to continue up to a desired point before debugging begins. This is more efficient than stepping through the code on a line-by-line basis.
disable in context menu)skip all breakpoints in breakpoint view)
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The tick means that the breakpoint has been successfully set. I think it may only appear when you're doing remote debugging; when you add a breakpoint, it starts out as a plain ball, but once the JPDA agent in the remote system has been told about it, and has confirmed it's set, then it gets a tick.
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