I think its for debugging purposes. If while you are debugging an application you want to change code in the current method the debugger is able to reexecute that method with out having to restart the application.
Bruce Jin
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Thanks Steve. This is interesting. I use Eclipse IDE I will try this. You mean this is not an IDE feature but built in JDK?
Steve Chernyak
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Yeah its cool. Eclipse is what I tried it with too. For somereason you can't do it in the main method. Im not sure if its because its static or not
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Sun is calling it HotSwap. It allows a class to be updated while under the control of a debugger. More informaion on HowSwap can be found in The JPDA Enhancements Document.
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