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Sorry to have bothered you with my petty problem. After all, big-time
programmers like you should ignore an ignorant student like me.

A.G.

A.G. wrote in message <723f5n$oud1@forums.borland.com>...
>Hi All:
>
>After complete frustraion with Java Workshop, I went to my college
bookstore
>and bought Borland JBuilder 2. :) I love it even though I have been using
it
>for a couple of days only!
>
>One thing that I can't get to work is debugging. I think that I'm missing a
>point somewhere. I am doing just simple programs in Java, that have no
>graphical interface or anything complicated. (I'm into introductory course
>so far).
>
>Example: a simple program that prints "hello" to the screen, reads a line
>from standard input, and prints it out as well. It runs OK, but I want to
>use debugger on it to understand how it works.
>
>It brings out console window and 'hangs'. I have no idea what it waits for,
>cause the 'trace into' and 'step over' and 'play' buttons are greyed out,
>and only 'pause' and 'stop' available. But if I press Enter, it unfreezes,
>and prints "hello" to execution log, and opens debug pane with 2 threads in
>it. (I'm sorry, but I am still unsure what these threads are.) That's where
>it ends. :( although 'play', 'trace in', 'step over' are available,
clicking
>them always brings me to the same point (see below).
>
>To the left of the debug pane in the source window there is source of
>FileInputStream.java, with highlited line over
>return readBytes(b, off, len);
>
>Nothing I am doing moves me further in debugging process. I am clueless.
>Please help.
>
>Thank you in advance,
>
>Arcady
>
>Here's the source I am doing this on:
>
>package Test2;
>import java.io.*;
>
>class Test2 {
>
>private static BufferedReader br =
>new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
>
>    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
>
>        System.out.println ("hello!!!");
>
>        String aWord = br.readLine();
>
>        System.out.println ( aWord );
>    }
>}
>
>