Hotswap debugging in workshop 9

Hi,
I remember that in Eclipse 2 [with Weblogic 8.1 being launched from the IDE through a plugin] & Visual age (before I used Eclipse) I used to debug web applications in a very productive manner. When the application was being debugged I could fix the code and the debugger would start from the beginning of the current method and continue without me having to restart my web app right from the login screen all over again. From what I know it is a JDK1.4 feature.
I guess this is the functionality I am talking about -
1) http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/jpda/enhancements.html#hotswap
2)http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/os-ecbug/#N1015F
Look under the section "Hotswap Bug Fixing: On-the-fly" code fixing
Now why isn't this possible with workshop 9 ? What extra configurations need to be done to be able to do this?
regards
Srini

This seems strange; hotswap debugging should work with Workshop 9 (i.e. Eclipse-based Workshop). It's a low-level JVM feature; I have used it in Workshop before without problems. Do you have a specific use case for which it's failing? (Be aware that hotswap debugging only works if you change code inside the body a method; if you change the shape of a type (not just the public shape -- if you add a field or method you are changing the shape) the change can't be hot swapped).
-Gary Horen

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